Jetty Tour Day 26 - Stansbury On Foot

Pelican takeoff

By all reports, a cracker sunrise this morning, although we are working on secondary information.

I walked into the village to get a script filled and ask for some advice from the pharmacist. Sue joined me for coffee and then we swapped and she walked home.

The tide was out during the morning, giving the landscape a totally different look. There wasn't any wind, so the water was like a mirror. I got some decent shots. We had a chat to our new neighbour, a bloke in his late twenties who is starting up a drone photography business. Out came the drone and it was soon examining the oyster beds about a kilometre offshore. While most find the technology fascinating, I just find it noisy. I went inside and did the trip finances.

After lunch, we went for a walk along the nature walk, the local part of the Walk the Yorke which we have seen right around the peninsular. Nice walk, although the view is often obscured of the little beach which holds boldly on as a buffer for the stunted trees behind it at high tide and then extends many hundreds of metres away from shore when the tide is out. This is compensated by regular access tracks from the main track, through the bush to the beach. Lots of sea birds, both in number and species.

Sue read while I planned out our return journey in a little more useful detail and allowing for Sue's back. Short hop, long hop, long hop, rest day, short hop. 1636kms in all through Morgan (SA), Mildura (Vic), Goolgowi and Dubbo.

Late afternoon we went to the local hotel. The menu looked good, with choices for even my fragile system and some really interesting looking meals. Some effort is clearly being put in. Pity the same can't be said of the front bar. The loud and repetitive foul language from a local - the only other person in the bar apart from us - was a put off, so we left. I'm no prig but there is a time and a place.

Click on the camera for today's photos

So after nearly four weeks on tour - nearly three of them on the Yorke Peninsular - we pull the rip
cord tomorrow. First stop will be in Balaklava, where son Sam is convinced we are pulling a bank job and then on to the picturesque Morgan on the Murray River.