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Port Wakefield Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Port Wakefield, Australia
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Ever tried crabbing with a rake?
... , it was just all too inviting! Even though it was still morning tea, we decided to set up at the free campsite on Port Parham foreshore and hang around for a couple of days. Apparently they catch crabs with rakes here! When we started to set ...
further and further...
... So the plan of action changed and we packed up early and drove North. Tonight we are camped at a rather non eventful place called Port Wakefield… Not far from Snowtown… But the plan is to wake up super early and head for Streaky Bay where we ...
The Barossa, a wine lovers heaven
... was huge. We took a nice scenic drive with a lookout over the Barossa Valley which must be the greenest area of South Australia, the country's driest state!! We visited Penfold's winery, Australia's most popular wine and then on to Wolf Blass, the King ...
Day Two
... we can across a giant Scottish man statue in Adelaide and giant insects in the paddocks just outside Adelaide. We arrived at historic Port Wakefield at 2pm in the afternoon after a Subway lunch at Murray Bridge. On a walk around town we discovered that ...
Great Fruit & Vegies & Butcher
Shopped at Dublin in Vegy shop and Butcher. Used Dump Point. Filled up at Lower Light ...
Road trip, the beginning
... west. Drove through Mildura again, which was strange going back to, but nice, not having to work there. that second day we drove into adelaide, accidentally, then made it to port wakefield before calling it a night and setting up camp ...
Shopping before heading off again
It's been 40 degree heat yesterday, today (Frid) and supposed to cool to 32 tomorrow and go up to 40+ for at least the next couple of days.....we are thinking of heading off tomorrow in the cool of the morning????? We went for a drive 40 ...
Gateway
... MORE DRIVING!!!!! Last leg of the drive!! We were getting so close we could smell the ocean's salty goodness. We hit Port Augusta, South Australia's gateway to the outback or in our case civilization, early afternoon. We stopped in town for lunch. Nothing ...
Day 1 Drysdale to Port Wakefield
... haven't been washed for months. Trying to navigate our way through Adelaide with a caravan in the pouring rain was fun, NOT!! Arrived at Port Wakefield at about 4.30pm. Rain had stopped and the sun was out, Yippee!! We went for a walk around the town and ...
Goolwa to Port Wakefield
... with lots of beautiful architecture along the way. After making our way out the other side we headed to where we are tonight at Port Wakefield. At last the wind has stopped and we are sitting outside along the river with the sea just a little way ...
Adelaide to Port Wakefield
After leaving Adelaide, we are off to Mt Remarkable. A quick coffee stop at Port Wakefield was great and for a small town (population of 600) did have great coffee. Don't know where the 600 people happen to be though...was lucky to see three people. ...
Back to beautiful Parham
Had a great drive taking in the views of the beautiful Yorke Peninsula. Final stop was the lovely township of Port Vincent. Here we did a rethink a recalculate and put Parham into the GPS destination. Only 135km so off to Parham we went. Arrived at 4pm to ...
Another way to catch crabs
A one night stopover to break our journey down to Adelaide. Free Camp with facilities with a short walk to the beach. Yes it was windy again and the tide was out for miles and miles. the way to catch crabs in these areas is to use a ...
birdwood car mueseum
Up early, dropped the van in only took 2 hours, Drive around Murray bridge, went to see the Bunyip. Picked up van, $175 later, off to Birdwood, had to drive up hill ( I do mean uphill the car did it well),National Motor Museum ( we will be ...
Day 16
We took advantage of another leisurely (and spacious) shower, before packing up and moving on. First though, we went up to the IGA to buy more groceries than we really needed (and they remembered us again, and chatted to us about their recent holidays), ...
61km from Adelaide and THE pink slippers
This morning we left our lovely camp at Belair National Park and headed to Port Adelaide to have the Ibis Air Conditioner sorted at the Air Command factory. Took nearly one hour to drive across town via a round about and yet wide and easy route. The air ...
To much fun
We got here about 6:00 pm we had to adjust our clock because SA is 30 min behind Victoria. We got out of the car and went to the beach but it was not that good, so we went to the park. There was a thing that spun round and me Jack and Mia hopped on ...
Our first WWOOF-ing experience
Our first WWOOF-ing experience!! We got a bus to the middle of bum-f**k-nowhere - Two Wells, where we were met by Bongo Pete!! Here we spent a week helping him make drums and all sorts of stuff for Womadelaide festival in Adelaide - we learnt how to ...
On the road again........
... it (or get hit from behind). Phew, that wouldn't have been a great start to the holiday. Finally we arrived at Port Wakefield, a quiet little fishing town 1 1/2 hours north of Adelaide. Tomorrow, off to the delights of Coober Pedy! Until ...
a week in a South Australian small town
We got an inexpensive 2 bdr cabin for a couple nights to give us a chance to dry out yet again. Everything was soaked and we are hoping that it is just weathering and that we’ll be cozy and dry come the next rain! Hmmm. ...
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