Innes National Park

Innes National Park
17 – 20 December

Innes National Park is on the tip of the Yorke Peninsula West of Adelaide, and that was all we knew about it, but the lady in the tourist information at Port Broughton said it was lovely. Yes, Port Broughton had to be visited, although the town is named after a different Broughton from our Bro's direct ancestor.

From Spencer Gulf

Our recent string of one night camps was designed to allow us to stop in one place until it was time to pick up Maggie and Millie from Adelaide and Innes National Park was the chosen place. We looped right around the park checking out most of the camps until we reached Browns Beach at the very end of the road. Backed by a large sand dune and situated behind a famous salmon beach, it clinched the deal by being empty save for one campervan. We managed to tuck our camper trailer in between two low Mallee eucalyptus and bunkered down against the blustery wind.

From Innes National park

For the next couple of days, the cruise degenerated into a fishing camp as the weather degenerated into 60kph wind and rain. Firstly an unrewarded effort from the beach the first night, and again next morning but later that day we got a feed of herring from Stenhouse Bay Jetty, teaching the SA locals the WA technique of catching them on a piece of drinking straw.

From Innes National park

The following morning Fabian caught a salmon on a lure from Browns beach and I got a couple of nice squid on Marion Bay jetty. On the next couple of mornings Bro and I also managed to land a couple of Salmon.

From Innes National park

We did take a couple of bushwalks, but mostly it was about the fishing.
After a couple of days, I was surprised to find the car starter battery flat when we went to leave. Luckily the boys were able to get twiggy moving at the snails pace required to successfully bump start it. I thought I must have flattened it by accidentally leaving it connected to the fridge but when it repeatedly failed to start the car after longish drives, I realized something was wrong. A bit of research with the current meter revealed the VSR (the black box which should disconnect the starter battery from all the other things which use power) wasn't working. Then to add insult to injury, I managed to run over the solar panel as we were trying to push start the car on another day.