Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Yorke Peninsula Weekend Away

On September 19-21 our car club, QCar, had a trip away to Port Broughton. We stayed in nice cabins at the Port Broughton Caravan Park, on the foreshore of the town. On the Saturday we drove inland and visited a few towns, the highlight being a visit to Melrose and the North Star Hotel and the cellar door which operates from there. They make a good sparkly red.

That evening we visited Robyn and Julie’s shack just down the road (they organised the trip away). We got there just in time to watch the sun go down. And unfortunately also just in time for the mosquito horde to descend. That night we dined at Palate to Palette in Port Broughton’s main street.

On the Sunday we visited Port Germein and Wallaroo. We took a drive along the beach at Wallaroo and went for a walk down to one of the most unique houses/shacks I’ve ever seen. The shack is 100m from the shore on a spit of rocks in the main bay of the town and it is surrounded by public land and beach. A colony of shags seem to reside a few metres from the shack’s front door.

We had lunch at the new pub, restaurant, apartment and docking facility next to the new canal estate in Wallaroo. We saw the new ferry too, that takes cars across the gulf saving drivers 400km off their trip.

Lunch was great and as it was a beautiful day, David and I hung around at this lovely spot for a few hours and ended up staying for an early dinner before heading back to Adelaide – and we missed all the traffic too.



Everyone and their cars.



David rescuing Julie's dog from a passing doberman.