Entry 1 – 2022 Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
We happily continue with Mary and Stephen’s travel journal during their retirement years, still loving our lifestyle time together, now into our 10th year.
December 2021 and January 2022 was a busy period with lots of projects to complete whilst at our home base. Steve completed plenty of caravan maintenance duties, installing new wheel bearings as part of his maintenance schedule once every five years, the brakes received some attention and re-painting of the under carriage as an example of measures in place to keep our caravan in good condition. Mary washed the caravan curtains and repacked all the internal cupboards removing any unnecessary clutter. Our tow tug was provided with a thorough clean inside and out including a good polish.
Steve provided our house taps with some attention making them easy to turn on and off along with other house attention duties. We also spent time with Steve’s parents catching up with all their needs including required maintenance around their home.
The 2020, 2021 covid-19 pandemic, mayhem continued into 2022. Our politicians were touting the lifting of border restrictions between states and recommencement of overseas tourism. Ironically even with all the ongoing announcements of a return to our normal lifestyle our 2021 Christmas activities were inhibited due to our governing bodies reversing their decision to lift group gatherings numbers with a snap reintroduction with more restrictions. This continued into the new year with our annual new year’s celebrations cancelled. Grrr.
We found ourselves listening less and less to our governing bodies all seemingly trying to outdo one another, with their own greater drama scenarios with the media willingly going along for the ride.
We managed a couple of nights away from home on the nearby Fleurieu Peninsula spending time with like-minded travel friends Petra and Jeff. It was a good re-boot to our well-being. It was such a good time with them we all scrutinized our calendars, locking in five nights together at the Dhilba Guuranda / Innes National Park to start in 11 days’ time on Yorke Peninsula. Just a few pictures of our time with Petra & Geoff during a visit to the nearby Goolwa Barrages.
We enjoyed an Australia Day celebration lunch with Steve’s sister and parents.
With our last outstanding job completed, some auto-electrician work on our tow tug we hooked up to the caravan and headed out for time away.
Our first night we propped at the small country township of Ardrossan at a provided free camp nearby the main street. Our first chore was to verify if we had TV reception, ✔. It was the Australian open tennis grand final night with Australian Ash Barty playing against an American girl. It was a good match to watch with Barty victorious, the first Australian winner in 44 years.
The following morning, we had a pleasant walk around the Ardrossan township.
The seven-day weather forecast was looking good and we headed down the road a bit setting camp at a beach side location, Wauraltee Beach on Yorke Peninsula. The day time temperatures were hovering around 30 C, our bodies appreciated regular dips in the cooling ocean waters and the scenery dazzled all our good vibe senses.
We walked along Wauraltee Beach, day after day, wandering into its cooling ocean waters whenever we started to feel hot. Even at breakfast time it was a pleasurable setting and glorious evening sunsets.
Day three the wind started to pick up and we checked the Bureau of Meteorology weather forecast. Their prediction for a week of good weather had changed, now showing a gale force weather warning with thunder storms and heavy rain. We stuck it out for another day but in the end decided to move to a more sheltered location to escape the sand blasting effect of then, an unpleasant Wauraltee Beach.
We relocated to Burners Beach with a high cliff face providing protection from the strong southerly winds.
After a couple of nights at Burners Beach, the weather forecast was looking promising for some nice beach weather and we relocated a bit further down the road to an open bush camp location of Swincer Rocks. Swincer Rocks to the eye looks dull and unattractive with no facilities but it does have nice ocean views and off to its side there is a lovely beach.
We walked along the beach several times each day. It was glorious weather with nice comfortable temperatures ranging from the high 20’s to the low 30’s. We would drop our footwear at the beginning of the beach, enjoying the pleasant feel of comfortable sand under our feet. The beach was about 3-4 kilometres in length till you came to a rocky outcrop at the other end. A walk along the beach provided us with a magnificent luxurious feel where we only came across another couple on the beach one time during our 5 days at this location. It felt like an exclusive, most enjoyable setting.
It was also that time of year when there were plenty of annoying flies about. We came prepared with an insect tent which we enjoyed time in reading and watching the glittery ocean.
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| The flies were even photo bombing our pictures |
We were about half way through our planned timeline enjoying some of the beautiful spoils provided by South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. More to come.
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