Yorke Peninsula - North

Leaving the Eyre Peninsula behind, we moved onto the smaller Yorke Peninsula. We stayed at Moonta Bay and loved the location overlooking the Gulf although the wind has been pretty shocking. There are many, many jettys - most towns in the area have one and they seem to be a tourism drawcard - we certainly wandered along many of them.

Apart from walking upon jettys, we rode our bikes to Port Hughes, into Moonta and out to the lolly shop where the mining museum is (copper). Love the towns that provide wonderful bike paths. It was the one nice day we had for doing that. We also drove around the neighbouring towns of Wallaroo and Kadina (this is the main shopping centre for the area)

Only 3 nights at Moonta, then we moved to the Southern Yorke Peninsula. On the way, we stopped at Minlaton and read an interesting story about the Red Devil Monoplane captained by Harry Butler (a Minlaton local). He was a WW1 pilot and there were very few of these planes made. This is the only one in existence in Australia. I love these little stories about local characters. I'll cover Southern Yorke in next footprint.Read more