The Yorke Peninsula was originally settled by Cornish miners and there are lots of stone miner’s cottages here, some well cared for and still being lived in, others in ruin.

Wheat and Barley have been grown successfully here since 1860; there are crops being harvested all across the peninsula and the skyline of many of the towns is dominated by silos.

We travelled down the west side of the peninsula and returned to Wallaroo via the east side. On today’s trip we managed to photograph the town signs of Urania, Brentwood, Hardwicke Bay, Oaklands, Yorketown and Stansbury, we have F, J and X to go, although I don’t think we’ll find an X. We’ve been travelling for months and should have gotten all the letters by now, but a lot of times when we’ve seen the letters we’ve needed we’ve been towing the trailer and seen the sign as we past it.

We rode down to the tip of the Peninsula, to the Innes National Park, where we visited the Cape Spencer Lighthouse, the West Cape Lighthouse and the wreck of a ship, The Ethel. There were lots of emus throughout the park.

The weather was all over the place today, sunny one minute, cloudy the next but always windy, the wind was terrible, blowing the bike about.

The Yorke Peninsula has a lot of very nice small towns all with the essentials such as schools, shops, hotels and there seems to be a lot of new development happening. I counted 4 real estate agents and one new home builders shop in Wallaroo which seems a lot for a town of 2,000 people. North of town is a canal development with new houses lining the canals.

It took us all day but I’m happy now that we’ve got most of the letters of the alphabet photographed, it has to be sent off before the end of the year and must be postmarked by 31 December. Now we need to get the photos printed.