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The Stunning Yorke Peninsula in South Australia

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If there are any doubts that Australia has the most beautiful beaches, this blog should dispel all doubts! The Yorke Peninsula is a leg shaped bit of land just west of Adelaide. It’s a great place for a road trip as the distances are quite manageable for driving. Fishing is a big thing in the Yorke Peninsula. Every jetty in each small town will have some recreational fisher-people trying their luck. A lot of locals have crab pots which they throw in off the jetties to draw up blue swimmer crabs. The small towns are lovely, tidy and spotted with heritage buildings.

Edithburgh
Edithburgh Tidal Pool
Wattle Point Wind Farm

It has been really lovely to see the amount of wind turbines and solar farms that abound in South Australia. It was particularly nice to see this wind farm up close and really get a feel for the sheer size of it!

Church
Innes National Park
Innes National Park
Innes National Park
Ethel Wreck – Innes National Park
Innes National Park
Innes National Park
Innes National Park
West Cape Lighthouse
Port Hughes Beach

Woomera

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This is a quick detour via Pimba when driving from Coober Pedy towards Adelaide. A military town that clearly used to have a bigger population. These amazing displays were by the roadside for anyone to look at.

Ayer’s Rock / Uluru after some rain

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It is a rare and special thing when it rains at Uluru. We were very lucky to catch the magnificent rock after some rains. The waterhole was flooded and it was a cacophony of frog calls at Uluru. We did the 11km base walk after some rains so a lot of the track had turned into muddy lakes. The base walk allowed us to see the many personalities of the rock but did feel very long and would have been very exposed had it not been overcast that day.

Waterhole full at Uluru – Note the plants that have gone underwater!

The wet base walk track around Uluru.

Rare picture of Uluru with a rain cloud on top!


Kings Canyon Rim Walk – SPECTACULAR!

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Despite being a long 5.5 hours drive from Alice Springs by 2WD, the Kings Canyon Rim Walk is one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful hikes ever. As a result, there are lots of photos! It was stunning in every direction! Lucky that the day we did the walk was overcast and slightly drizzly. It would otherwise be exposed and hot! Bring a fly net for your head! The number of flies would drive anyone to insanity!

Coober Pedy – a dusty, desolate but fascinating place

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Coober Pedy in South Australia has a treeless, desolate landscape marked with piles of dirt where opals have been mined.  People live in dwellings carved out of the sandstone to escape from the heat and exposed landscape.  Worth a visit! Interesting tour at Umoona museum to learn how opals are mined and the atmospheric Serbian Orthodox Church dug out of rock.

Flat, desolate, hot Coober Pedy

Little piles of dirt resulting from the opal mines

Umoona museum shop

Small amount of opal left in the rock

Umoona Museum

Umoona museum shop

Umoona Museum

Umoona Museum

Umoona Musuem – example of hand dug room

Umoona Museum

Serbian Orthodox Church

Serbian Orthodox Church, Coober Pedy

 

 

Daly Water Pub – A Hoarder’s Paradise

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On a journey down the center of the vast continent that is Australia, a visit to the Daly Waters Pub is a must-do. Somehow in the middle of nowhere, they have accumulated a whole bunch of eclectic collections. Bras, hats, shirts, motorcycles, traffic lights,  helicopters just to name a few…

We camped in their campsite. Toilet amenities are OK. Camping in wet conditions tends to make everything muddy and wet. The food at the pub was great and the staff friendly. Plus there is a free roaming horse called Polly!