We moved further south down the Yorke Peninsula. Because it is quite narrow there is no road going directly down the coast, but rather down the middle of the land, with turn-offs to various towns every now and then. The first stop was Maitland, a small inland town with a few shops and not much else. From here we took the turn off to Port Victoria, a small coastal town half way down the boot, and the only one that could be reached on sealed roads. This was a ver...

Now we were starting the Yorke Peninsula proper. The Eyre Peninsula is a big wide triangle with a road running down one coast and up the other. The Yorke Peninsula on the other hand is long and narrow and shaped a bit like a boot (like Italy). Setting out from Adelaide it is very easy to go straight over the top of the Yorke and not even notice it, so we had never been here before. However because it is closer to Adelaide it was fairly popular with the locals, es...

Whyalla is pretty much the last town on the Eyre Peninsula. We continued north to the very tip of the Spencer Gulf and around the corner, where Port Augusta sat. As we approached it we could see the waterway getting narrower and narrower, and the Flinders Ranges rising on the other side. We have been through Port Augusta several times so we drove right through and continued to one of our favourite places - Port Germein. This is a very small town famous for its v...

Whyalla is a strange town with a multiple personality disorder - it cannot quite make up its mind what it wants to be. It started off life being big in ship building and steel work, and still has a large industrial hub and a port full of very serious looking ships. More recently it has tried to appeal to the tourists by building up its foreshore precinct, and to trade by installing a large shopping mall - each at different ends of the town. On our first trip tw...

It was a good thing the heat had broken by the time we got to Cowell because we discovered it does not have a beach. The bay is lined by mangroves without a grain of sand in sight. It is situated on a large bay with a very small opening, so again an ideal place for oyster farming. We went to the oyster sheds and sampled their wares - very nice. As we were shucking our oysters in the camp kitchen we met another couple who were cooking up a big batch of blue swimm...