Like most activities one undertakes, one falls into a bit of a routine. One of ours is, on the day of travel, pack up and set off before smoko. There's a good reason for this, generally down the road, there's a nice spot to spend some time in another location during the journey. It's all about the journey, not the destination. Looking over the map during our driver / navigator meeting, we noticed a few little towns that should offer a park (or something) for the resting traveller. As per our usual routine, on our pack up morning in Morgan, we merrily set off down the road anticipating a lovely little smoko stop.
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Hah .. not so! Well not that we saw - we still think that any town of any size should have a park somewhere within, maybe just not on the main road, but who knows now?? We did a quickie driver swop and pushed on. Surely, there's a park in the next little town. No, no .... And as the caffiene levels were dropping, the desperate driver did a quickie dash off the road, no time to explain, so I hung on. We were sort of in a wider road reserve, but we were off the road. I quickly got to making the coffees. While warming coffee cups and 'plunging', I could hear the different birds and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ivor grab the binos, coffee not forgotten, but a more urgent priority had arisen. Sipping my coffee, I looked further afield and saw that we were at the edge of a conservation reserve. Could you believe it? Birds everywhere in this little bit of bush. Then we noticed the sign (should have taken a pic, but there you go...) you could barely read the wording, '... Conservation Reserve... ' a very lucky stop for us.
Our destination of Minlaton (population 773) was chosen because it's quite a central location in the Yorke Peninsula. First stop was the information centre to arm ourselves with the local info (of course), but an added treat was that they have a very well stocked selection of home-made biscuits, jams and chutneys. Talk about kids in the lolly shop ...
We also stocked up on some jams and chutneys too. Would you believe that there's a Chocolaterie here too?
Such an extensive range, making it hard to choose
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Aren't they gorgeous, little flowers on some too.
All sweet things covered, back to the touring. You'll see that Yorke Peninsula is the shape of a boot. At the end is Innes National Park where the scenery is stunning. We had the most gorgeous day, not too cold, not too windy, sun shining, just glorious.
We've never seen a stone bird hide before, shame the lake is bone dry.
Birdwatching at the end bit
There are a few wind farms down this way
Innes National Park (the bottom of the boot)
Stenhouse Bay, Innes National Park
The End, Innes National Park
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