Wool Bay Jetty

Point Turton 

Gravel Bay

Gravel Bay

7/5/2012  -  Wow, what a night.  The wind was really strong just before we went to bed and kept up all night just getting stronger and stronger.  We were woken up during the night with the awning blowing around and the van rocking.  We got up early and did battle getting the awning rolled up.  At least it was a bit quieter with it up.    The Sun was shining but it was too windy and we didn't want to go through another night like that so we had breakfast, packed up and hit the road at about 9.30.  Port Julia was the next town. It was quite small with lots of older houses and a good campground for $6 a night.  Port Vincent was just down the road with quite a few shops and a nice clean caravan park.  Stansbury was just lovely with a great caravan park and the town was nice and clean.  We could spend some time here plus Stansbury is famous for raking crabs when they are in season.  Wool Bay had a lovely jetty and there were old lime kilns on the hill above the jetty. Just outside of town was Port Giles where there was big grain silos and a wharf where they were loading a ship.  Then we passed through Coobowie, Edithburgh that had a great van park and we could spend some time here too.  Fuel was $1.55 and $1.60 for unleaded here.  Sultana Point had a big wind farm and lots of new houses, Yorketown was quite big with all services, Warooka was small and then on to Port Turton.  It had a good van park which was $21 for the night but it was quite a tight little park.  It was right across the road from the jetty so would be close to do some fishing.  We had lunch there.  We kept heading south to Marion Bay but it wasn't very nice and would have gone to Stenhouse Bay but it is in the Innes National Park and we would have had to pay $12 just to drive into the park and then $7 if we wanted to camp.  We didn't know what it would be like so we gave that a miss.  We drove up a corrugated dirt road out to Gym Beach was was nice but it was also National Park.  Gravel Bay was lovely too but Corny Point was just a dirty little town with dirty toilets so it wasn't worth driving to.  Hardwicke Bay had some new homes as well as a row of fishing shacks on the water. There was lots of weed there too.  We needed to pull up for the night so called into Port Minlacowie Rest Area.  Well,  we thought it was the rest area but it was actually down the road at the boat ramp but had a no camping sign up.  Anyway we had a water view for the night and the wind was not blowing which was just great.  We had tea early and went to bed.