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Marion Bay Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Marion Bay, Australia
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Copper Coast Road Trip
The Yorke Pennisula protrudes from South Australia like a club-footed answer to Italy's boot. A half-days' drive from the city, Yorkes is a mainstay of Adelaide's cottage country, and the perfect destination for a mid-week, winter road-trip. With ...
Learning our Trade
... stop over place as Port Lincoln a lot further than planned). Port Germein's claim to fame is the longest wooden jetty in Australia!! (1.5kms). Also has cheap booze ($5 pints of Coopers, $4 cider!!) Heading to Port Lincoln tomorrow - possibly to go in ...
Day 15-19 Yorke Peninsula
... the van (sympathy noted, as its hard enough with two people), so we decided not to try and drive the entire way to Marion Bay. Ardrossan looked interesting so driving there instead reduced the trip by half. We arrived at 6.30pm to an easy drive thru site ...
Day 64 - Marion Bay
... the locations along the coast were really spectacular, in particular, the lighthouse and headland at West Cape and the view back to Pondalowie Bay. The water was a vibrant blue. We saw a couple of wallabies and a pair of skinks on the walk back from the ...
Day 63 - Marion Bay
... lap around down by the sea. The water was vibrant blue, similar to what can be seen on the beaches in WA. We ended up in Marion Bay which is pretty close to the tip of the Peninsula and adjacent to the Innes National Park which is just up the road. After ...
Les beautes de la peninsule de Yorke
Bonjour tout le monde, Apres les beautes du desert d´Australie, je suis parti avec 3 Allemands vers la Peninsule de Yorke. Au Programme: emeux et koalas jouant pres de nos tentes, falaises vertigineuses et plages a l´eau cristalline. Magnifique quoi ! ...
Yorke Peninsula
Nach Adelaide war Yorke Peninsula unser naechstes Ziel (ca. 3 Stunden von Adelaide entfernt). Auf dem Surfers Campground waren wir die einzigen die uebernachtet haben. Zu diesem Camp gehoerte ein herlicher Strand mit riesigen Wellen. Am naechsten Morgen ...
Stick to what you know
... surrounds ensured we would get by without our creature comforts. That night we were treated to another magnificent sunset over Pondalowie Bay and the clearest sky we had ever seen. We went to bed excited about what the following day was to ...
DAY 56 - BALGOWAN TO INNES - RETURN OF THE FLIES
... made a beaded bouquet and arranged delivery to his grave. Crewmen continued to visit the grave until 1975 when shipping at Stenhouse Bay ceased.' I was moved by this story and paid my own respects before moving on. I went on to see Chinaman's Hats Island ...
WINTER BEACHES, ABANDONED TOWNS.
... and we visited Harvest Corner at Minlaton to chat with the volunteer about the peninsula’s attractions and produce. Stenhouse Bay! Wow we were impressed! A large, spacious well- kept camp ground right on the beach and just 3 other ...
Sun, fun and nothing to do...
… hatten wir auf der Yorke Peninsula im Süden des Staates South Australia. Bestes Wetter, beste Wellen und keine Sau ist an diesen kilometerlangen Stränden. Keine Sau? An der Pondalowie Bay im Innes Nationalpark stiessen wir auf die coolste ...
Investigating Innes
... as the change of tide was 12pm today. We all dressed in warm clothes – jeans, jackets, etc. and drove down towards the Marion Bay Jetty. We stopped at the bait and tackle shop to get some berley floats and some bait but it was closed on ...
Historic Inneston
... until the depression in the 30s. Then we drove to Cape Spencer and walked to the lighthouse. On the way we looked down at the bay below and we could see a pod of about 6 dolphins surfing the waves. We came back to the van and went down to the ...
Fishing and Ferrets
Well we had no excuses left today – it was a beautiful sunny day and the bait shop was open, so we had to take the kids fishing. We had a bit of a lazy morning and then when I went over to the shower I saw a couple walking their pet FERRETS! ...
Rest Day at the Beach
Today we were going to do a trip into the National Park but the kids are really sick of packing up and heading off every day and Carl and I are exhausted after our stressful day yesterday so we decide to have a schoolwork/rest day. Carl has a lazy ...
On the Yorke Peninsula
... are getting very good at setting up the van now. We had plenty of time to explore the area and were amazed to discover that Marion Bay has only one general store, which caters to take-away food, fuel, groceries, fishing gear, bait, etc etc. The ...
Day 44 and 45. Yorke Peninsula
... Bay and the Innes National Park where Grant had read about the Inneston ruins and was keen to have a look. After passing through Marion Bay, another little seaside town, we went onto Stenhouse Bay in the Innes National Park. Stenhouse Bay was a thriving ...
Day trip via Corny Point to Innes National Park
Today we set out to see the beaches and headlands from Corny Point to Marion Bay and then in to the Innes National Park. We're blown away by the pristine and natural beauty of the Park. Betty almost got to close to the fauna though, missing an Emu by mere ...
Gestern abend kam ich von kangoroo island ...
Gestern abend kam ich von Kangoroo Island zurueck, war aber auch nur 1 1/2 Tage dort. Dort gibts jede Menge Tiere zu sehen. Mal wieder Koalas, Kangoroo, Pinguine, und ich hab zum ersten Mal freie Seeloewen und Seehunde gesehen. Die liegen da am ganzen ...
The Yorke Peninsula
... , well kept old homes. Lots of little holiday/fishing places all along the coast We proceeded down towards Marion Bay via Yorketown and Warooka and arrived about lunchtime. Our walk today was along the watersedge amongst the seaweed. We ...
Yorke Peninsula – Stenhouse Bay
... into the water in the hope that one of those poor little buggers will bring home the catch of the day. The taverns at both Marion and Stenhouse have plenty of photos that show there have been fish caught in these parts. Today we did the walk from ...
DAY 149 – SATURDAY 20TH NOVEMBER – WAL
... tea come early lunch stop before we headed further down the Peninsula. We called into Minlaton and bought a few groceries before heading for Marion Bay. We decided we would stay at Stenhouse Bay in the Innes National park, so after putting a bit of fuel ...
DAY 150 – SUNDAY 21ST NOVEMBER – STENH
Today was our second day of investigating the Innes NP, so after breakky we headed back to the Stenhouse Bay Jetty and did the walk up and around the headland. The walk has boards explaining more about the shipping side of the gypsum and it was surprising ...
Yorke Peninsula
A couple of hours west of Adelaide boot shaped Yorke Peninsula bills itself as 'Agriculturally Rich- Naturally Beautiful'. Much of the Yorke Peninsula is made up of golden wheat fields on gently rolling hills. It feels and looks a little like the Isle ...
Happy New Year Australia!!
... that we come over for Falls Fest... I'm in Tassie, ready for some good music (almost none of whom I know, darn Aussie bands). Marion Bay is amazing, really nice grounds looking over a pretty bay. We arrived with two cars, and got our ...
Catastrophic Fire Alerts and beach bums
It had been 15 years since I had last been to innes national park so I knew it would be quite emotional to see the place again. I knew that things had changed with a new tarmac road rather than the old graded track and that this would bring more ...
Stunning Scenery; Wildlife come to Innes NP
... is supposed to look like a rhino...yeah maybe after a couple of wines. Finally we looped our way home, a nice afternoon stroll. Stenhouse Bay Lookout walk 2km and Jetty Walk Located near our campsite this is a lovely stroll up and over a small ...
The problem with doing nothing......
... not to worry it was probably farmers burning off some land knowing full well he had no idea what it was. As we got closer to Marion Bay we drove through a small amount of smoke but were re-assured that it was a controlled fire as there were a number of ...
Falls Festival
We rang in the new year at Falls festival in marion bay tasmania, we had an absolte ...
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