11th December 2013-MINLATON

11th December 2013

We spent today sightseeing around the lower portion of the Yorke Peninsula. We made it to Minlaton one day later than expected as little Sammy was paying her ear too much attention so we stayed at Wallaroo an extra day to take her to the vet. (She has an inflamed ear so got an Anti-biotic injection and one weeks worth of ear drops-poor little poppette)

We did a lap of the lower section. Some of the towns can just seem the same as they all have a beach and a jetty, but there is usually one feature that stands out, for Marion it was the gorgeous little beach that we found right up the end of town. If the tide came in any higher there is a chance that the beach would disappear altogether but for all I know this could already by high tide !?

THE HIDDEN LITTLE BEACH AT MARION

I totally L-O-V-E-D Yorketown. And not just because they have a fabbo bakery that sold the best pasties and pies (I will add that they also sold the most awesome looking chocolate doughnuts that were filled with custard......but due to my rather large stash of lollies back at the van I resisted temptation and DID NOT buy a doughnut-amazing I know :(

YORKETOWN PUB (ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE BAKERY)

 

 It was while we were cruising around in the middle of no-where that we spotted this pink lake, it was as pink as it looks in this photo. I have seen a pink lake before but it was also in South Australia

THE PINK LAKE....NOT SURE WHAT CAUSES THIS BUT IT WAS IN AN AREA WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF SALT FLATS

 

 

 We had completed a lovely day of sightseeing and were on the final 10km home when we went flying past this sign and totally had to turn back for a photo........

LOVERS LANE!!!!!

How cool was it to finally find Lovers Lane (excuse the weird hair but it was pretty windy there) Disappointingly it is a dirt road that went to farms.....but how cool would it be to say that you lived on Lovers Lane?

And finally, as a Post Script to my earlier post dated 4th December RE:Spuds lollies. When we left Wallaroo heading for Minlaton we had to go through Moonta...the town where I discovered the now famous (to me anyway!)SPUDS....an opportunity not to be missed. So Les graciously stopped to let me get more (isn't he fabulous!) This time I got plenty and took a photo for you.

THE FAMOUS(?) SPUDS. THEY ARE THE SIZE OF A GOLFBALL AND SUPER YUMMY!

We are going to have a more thorough look around Minlaton tomorrow morning before we head up the east side of the Peninsula.