Goodbye Yorke Peninsula – Hello Fleurieu Peninsula!!!!!!!!!

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Hello everyone, our last blog was from Marion Bay on the Yorke Peninsula.

Marion Bay is a small seaside town with numerous holiday homes. It is a fishing destination & has a history of gypsum mining. We said goodbye to Marion Bay & its wild & untouched coastal scenery & travelled to Warooka which is really the gateway to the bottom of the Yorke Peninsula. Next stop was Yorketown, another service town, & then onto Edithburgh.

Edithburgh was established as a seaport in 1860. In its heyday it was the third busiest port in South Australia, shipping salt from the districts many salt lakes & grains from the many local farms. We then travelled north through Stansbury to Port Vincent where we booked into the local caravan park for a couple of nights. Port Vincent on St, Vincent Gulf is a yachting mecca with a quite new marina. During our stay at Port Vincent we experienced very strong winds & rain.

It was northward onto the seaside township of Ardrossan & its imposing red cliffs & then driving around the top of the peninsula to Port Wakefield. We continued in a south easterly direction through the major service town of Gawler where we had a nice bakery lunch before continuing south through several small towns to a delightful campsite on the banks of the Murray River at Mannum.

The next day we travelled to Murray Bridge, stocked up on groceries, &, headed south to Langhorne Creek where we stayed in a delightful free camp for a couple of nights. Langhorne Creek is a special wine producing area inn South Australia. It has the oldest recorded Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world & families that have been making wine for five generations or more. The cooling lake & ocean breezes give the red & white wines their distinctive character. Ancient gum trees mark the boundaries of long-established vineyards & the long tree lined country roads are a delightful vista with their coloured leaves because of seasonal change.Whilst there, we took a daytrip to Hahndorf. Hahndorf is a very German hamlet about half an hour from Adelaide. It has many craft & specialty shops. Cheryl enjoyed some well-earned retail therapy!

Leaving Langhorne Creek, we travelled through Strathalbyn, Mt. Compass & Yankalilla to Normanville on the west coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula where we booked into a caravan park right on the beach. The next day we travelled down the coast to Cape Jervis. Cape Jervis is the ferry departure point for Kangaroo Island. We were quite impressed with the coastal scenery & views of the Starfish Hill Wind Farm. We have noticed many wind farms in South Australia.