20230510 SA Cape Jervis

20230510 On our way to yet another coastal town, “Cape Jervis” but first Des goes in search of a new strut for the van and after searching the town we left empty handed. Travelling along Range Rd and it’s sprinkling with rain and to be honest I will be much happier once we start heading inland, I miss our outback towns. We passed by Waitpinga and the scenery to Cape Jervis is hilly with lush green hills, probably due to all the bloody rain here. So far it’s rained all the way from the Bluff to Cape Jervis were we camped at the lookout and watch the unusual loading of the Sea Link vessel. 

Cape Jervis Light House was first lit on 10 August 1871 then in 1972, the original tower was replaced by a new tower. Des looks real excited about having his photo taken.😟

Des and I stood at the freezing lookout and watched the bazaar process of loading and unloading, the semi trailers drove up and reversed onto the Link, dropped there full trailer, drove forward then reversed on again and picked up an empty trailer, this went on for what seemed like three hours.

Des enjoying a beer while watching the sun go down over Cape Jervis, it’s bloody freezing up here and Mr dummy has thongs on and wonder’s why he’s cold, you know what they say, 

no brain no pain.😏

Wow! Now that’s what I call a breathtaking view, the colours at sun set are just beautiful.

As freezing as it was Des and I stood outside watching the sun set at the lookout taking in this spectacular view.

20230511  Des woke around 3am after the heavy winds blue up at the lookout rocking our van, we quickly packed up and left looking for a place to park until the sun came up and just up the road we parked on someone’s footpath. We had a few suspicious looks as the homeowner opened there gate to find a motor home parked out the front on their footpath. After breakfast we left headed to Normanville, stopping to check out the town and grab a coffee and cake before leaving for Myponga. Bugger there’s a detour and we got lost, but we did find ourselves a camp spot at a park on Corner Bakers Gully Rd & McLaren Flat Rd, Kangarilla, where we settled in for the night and we cracked a beer and I roamed the ground catching up with friends and family while chatting on the phone for hours while Des did the same.

The long road as we head to Mt Barker

In the distance I spotted the Wind Farm and found out it’s The Starfish Hill Wind Farm on the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula, it was the first wind farm built in South Australia and was selected because of the consistently high winds, is sparsely populated and was previously cleared for farming and grazing. There are 23 wind turbines with 15 located on Salt Creek Hill and eight on Starfish Hill and each turbines has three blades with a tower height of 68 metres and overall height of 100 metres from the ground to the blade tip. It provides enough energy to meet the needs of about 18,000 households and adds one per cent to the available generation capacity in South Australia. 

The hills are we drive through look so manicured.

Stopping at the Hobart Memorial Lookout and down below are scattered with old fishing huts along the beaches.

The ex-HMAS Hobart was sunk as a dive site in 2002, it now sits in the Sanctuary Zone within the Marine Park and is regarded as one of South Australia's premier dive sites. It now hosts an incredible diversity of marine life.

I just love the green rolling hills as we travel around this state, just beautiful.

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