Yorke Peninsula

View of Black Point - our van under tree at right

Whilst on Yorke Peninsula we stayed for 8 nights at the Harvey Caravan Park at Black Point.  Great park with only 10 caravan sites with showers, toilets, water, power, and free laundry all for $20/night. Park was also absolute beach front and next to the boat ramp. It’s easy to get to know everybody when there are only a few campers and we had some great evenings around the fire (yep could even have fires in this caravan park) and one memorable afternoon where everyone cooked up some seafood – oysters, crumbed red-claw, King George Whiting, battered razor shell, and blue swimmer crabs – a real feast.

Nice for $20/night

Point Black’s magnificent sandy beaches stretched along three kilometres to the point and this was a great walk in the mornings.  After arriving we prepped the tinny and during the first afternoon I caught seven blue swimmer crabs and two big King George whiting. Unfortunately I forgot to put the keeper bag in the boat when I pulled up anchor and lost both whiting and bag – copped some ribbing from the rest of the campers for days after! In the time we were at Black Point we had two big feeds of blue swimmer crabs and put a few KG Whiting fillets in the freezer. On the last fishing day Linda and I were out in our tinny fishing next to the tinny of our neighbour in the caravan park - I threw over the anchor and found out that the shackle had come off - good bye anchor – I can still hear the laughing from other tinny – more ribbing that night!  Local oysters were only $10 a dozen fresh in the shell and were the best oysters I have ever tasted.



Beautiful coastline

We also spent some time touring around on the peninsula and you can see why people come here for holidays. The inland rolling countryside with its endless wheat and canola fields to the pristine blue waters of the southern ocean – make this a really pretty place. 

Southern Beaches

The peninsula has many small towns all of which seem to be dominated by pubs and churches (sin on Saturday and repent on Sunday J). All towns have a lot of history and some of the old stone buildings and churches are over 100 yrs old. We had some great counter lunches at some of the pubs and for around $10/head you could get a great meal.

 

 

On one of our days out down the south end of the peninsula we followed the scenic gravel coast road and was having a great time till we got a stake through our rear tyre – bugger! We changed the tyre and drove into Yorketown for lunch – the local tyre repair place closed at midday but typical of the country the guy came in on his afternoon off and fitted a new tyre for me.  

Edithburg Wind Farm

Now for the bad news – for the whole eight days and nights we stayed we copped strong to gale force winds for six of them.  Put up our awning when we arrived and spent all the night getting up every hour to check the ropes and fittings - trying to make sure it wasn’t going to blow away. Awning never went up again during the stay! For most days the wind put fishing out of the question and made life generally miserable around the campsite - never again will I travel to the peninsulas in SA during Spring.

 The Peninsula is a beautiful spot – just pick a month when it’s not windy to visit!