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.
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
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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