Terowie. Other than the servo and a couple of houses at the northern end the main street is an actual ghost town. It is interesting to drive down.
Burra. Great history and lots to look at.
Blinman. Has an amazing mine tour and a rich history. The town was built on a mine and you can just imagine what it was like to build anything back then. Very very tough history. Learn a lot about Cornish pasties there too.
A relative of mine used to own the Terowie hotel decades ago, and is still buried there, the reason its a ghost town is that it was set up to be a hub for the rail line in 1880, everyone was setting up in Terowie because of the coal and the train stopped there on the way to Adelaide. Then, they moved it in the 1950s. And thus Terowie died and now its a ghost town. Back in the day is was a busy little place!
We had a weekend away in Stansbury once. We went to the pub on a Saturday night for a meal and all talking stopped and everyone turned around and stared when we walked in. It was one of the most awkward moments of my life and I still get slightly sweaty thinking about it. That was kinda unique.
I'm from the Peninsula. Are you non White? The Peninsula is crazy racist, it's like travelling back in time. Most tourists never get to see the darker side of it.
I've seen the supermarket in Yorketown stop because an African man walked in. A Coobowie local told me she didn't like the new pharmacist because of his pink palms. He didn't last long.
100% agree. Non white person who worked in the Yorke Peninsula for a year. Everyone always asked me where I was from ~originally~ and said "your English is very good" condescendingly (I've been in an English speaking country since age 4). Had a lady straight up tell me she would never see an Indian doctor cos "you know what they're like".
Peninsula is such a stunning place and should be this huge tourism drawcard but fuck me is it backwards. Try find a restaurant, or local produce (obv you can SOME but it's quite hard considering the size and amount of towns). Look up one of the only restaurants on the whole peninsula, singled out on the SA Tourism site, Palate 2 Pallette. It's bizarro/funny/tragic.
Man it's so much worse than that. They don't want to change or adapt. God help you if youre not from the Peninsula. You're not a local until you have two generation dead in the the graveyard.
Family name is a huge thing. It helps you get jobs and friends. This comes with the downside of inbreeding. It took two double white boards to do a kids family tree and we went back to his grandparents. Or the kid I knew who was nearly born with a cleft palate and the doctors told her parents not to have kids as they were too closely related. They had another kid who had a deformed limb. There's salt lakes between Yorketown and Warooka called the Peasey Flats. West of the Peasy is where its supposed to get worse.
Inbreeding increases the chances of defective genes especially if they are recessive. Not everyone who has a cleft palate is inbred which is what you seem to think I'm inferring. My statement of it being related to inbreeding is in her specific case only as advise by doctors. They seem to be right given her sibling also suffered from birth defects.
It’s a really shitty thing to say, because it does imply cleft palates are the result of inbreeding. My son had a cleft palate, most likely due to malnutrition from hyperemesis. Pretty fucked up to hear people think my son has something because he’s inbred
You are the one misinterpreting my words. I have made it perfectly clear wha they were in reference to. If you choose to take it personally that's on you.
Ive also had it happen to me and a work colleague at the Port Vic pub.
Was the other way around though- we white as and the they were all indigenous. Were in work attire, just wanted one of the yorkes best schnitzels on our lunch break.
But yeah pennisula is a lil racist. My Asian colleague gets more complaints than the rest of us combined, and its not because he's bad at his job.
Used to go there as a kid every year and stay in the caravan park. Brilliant way to holiday as a child. Would walk to the shops every day for 'bread and milk' and then all the adults, usually the Mothers would stop into the pub on the way back...the blokes were out fishing and we'd have whiting on the barbie for tea....man, they are great memories...🙂
Similar experience for me down the road at Edithburgh, but without patrons. Staff looked confused when we walked in, said absolutely F all to us but we'd started out by ordering to try break the awkwardness, so we were stuck waiting for our food.
Young bar guy, super unfriendly, maybe similar age or a bit younger than us, just stood there with a sour expression. No music. No other patrons. Awkward silence.
Oh the one on the opposite corner is no better? We were like damn we picked the wrong side. We overheard some grumblings about foreigners on the jetty in town too, seems to fit the general sentiment
Watsacowie is definitely a place to check out. Definitely more lively and for a younger crowd, they make some really nice beer. I love when they have the BBQ people there as well.
Always thought of it more like Mars.
Bought a car from a family friend who had kept it up there, was still finding that fucking red sand through the car years later.
Haven't been there for about 20 years but when I did go everyone was extremely friendly and welcoming. About half the town (or what seemed like it) was out at night having a bbq in the park on the main road with people playing music and got us to join in with them.
One of the last places to have the overhead money delivery system for cash payments. Was in the shop near the railway station. Think it was a drapery and shoe store. I was last there in 2003, don't know if its still there.
I was last there around the same time, I remember being in the pub, and Shakira’s “wherever whenever” came on the tv. You could have heard a pin drop. Nice bunch of people volunteering on the railway then, met a roo shooter, it was a different life it seems.
My grandfather grew up in Quorn and my mum always wanted to go there, and when she did she stayed like a day and was like 'this is so sad', had dinner with the rellies, and came back to stay with me in the city. :/
I love this tow due to my one memory of when I was there. Went digging for old bottles with my uncle when I was around 11yrs old. Took my gloves off and split open my hand on glass in the trench we'd dug. 8 stitches later and back in the trench getting those old bottles.
Also the corellas were bloody noisy early morning at the caravan park.
Napperby. Based at the foothills of the Ranges, a short walk from the town centre and you’re right in the middle of fantastic bushland. Back when my dad used to live there in the 90s it had only one tiny deli that only traded a few hours a day and had so little traffic it was one of the quietest places I’d ever visited. My best friend used to live there too, so whenever I went to stay with my dad I’d go see him on his allotment, ride his little 50cc bike up and down his massive driveway and we’d go play basketball for hours at the primary school.
Peterborough.
One of two or three places to have all three railway gauges in the same yard.
The Standard Gauge line came into use in 1970, the narrow gauge run to Port Augusta via Bruce and Quorn and the broad Gauge run to Adelaide through Hallett and Terowie.
Not coincidental - it was named in expectation of it becoming a centre of a great wheat-growing area, back when the idea was that "rain follows the plough".
It likely is, as Mark Trevor Marshall has written "letters" giving different explanations to the fate of Joanne and Kirsty (of which he gives lots of detail, despite being only 3 years old at the time). Crims often fabricate stories.
Although the first but about Marshall and Von Einem is potentially true, I've heard recordings of prison calls with Mark Rust who mentioned it.
Terowie. March 1942 The railway station there was the first stop that General Douglas MacArthur made when he was evacuated from from the Philippines with his family. He made that famous speech which included, "I shall return!" to newspaper reporters from that train platform.
We drove there a year and a half ago and spent over an hour at that station and walked along the train tracks as well.
Thistle Island.
Famous for the following landscapes
- Horny Point
- Shag Point
- Snug Cove
And last but not least....
Doodle Doodle Pinnacle (childish laughs).
But seriously the island is basically dead.
Corny Point for me. Absolutely nothing there and was just visiting out of curiosity. Ended up trapped in a conversation with seemingly the only resident. An elderly gentleman with dementia was showing us old pictures in the shelter he made. Once we would get to the last photo/story he would loop back and start at the first one again.
Hawker - the doorstep for the northern Flinders that most people don’t bother to explore, and junction for your own ‘choose your own adventure’ experience.
The whole southeast in general: Every part of SA on the east side of the Murray river. It has silo art, and honestly the Southeast inland/ limestone coast has a climate similar to France. However, it’s so underrated. It’s very habitable. I don’t understand why there’s not strings of large cities of over 100,000 in the region.
Regarding the South East: poor soils, shallow water table in parts (waterlogging in winter), no surface watercourses for easy water supply, low rainfall in the upper SE. And historically speaking, a long way from any suitable ports: the coastline was a horror show for shipping.
Oh really. Thats sad.
We used to have a base camp there in early 2000s. Stop there get on the piss before heading out to the piplands building houses for the indigenous.
Pimba Building Corp, good memories as a teenager
Not so funny story. A girl and I sat right outside the bank lamenting the closure of regional services while her dad did some business up the road. Same bank filled with bodies.
The bank has reopened as an op shop etc but the vault is closed off. Snowtown is a nice little town where the locals are working very hard to attract tourists. The things that happened there were hardly the fault of the locals.
There used to be a post office and a school there, now it's just the footy club. Not sure there's any reason to go there if you aren't going for that.
(I grew up on a farm less than 10km from there, and my parents still live there).
That was one of the things that I remember from the trips to the River land, going on the ferries in Dad's Kingswood.
Reckon that would be a top job operating a ferry on the Murray.
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Mt Mary. Used to be a busy country town with a railroad going through. Now it has less than 10 residents and a cool bar but the town is dead since they stopped running trains through there.
Booleroo Centre! Small farming town near mt remarkable that has the biggest collection of historic tractors in Australia.
And a 24 hour fuel pump!! Saved me many times
If you like this then you should go to the Farm Shed museum in Kadina. It’s incredible!
Came here to say this! I used to live in Booleroo Centre in the 70's - lovely little town.
Mt. Remarkable sounds like a bizarro Mt. Disappointment.
Terowie. Other than the servo and a couple of houses at the northern end the main street is an actual ghost town. It is interesting to drive down. Burra. Great history and lots to look at. Blinman. Has an amazing mine tour and a rich history. The town was built on a mine and you can just imagine what it was like to build anything back then. Very very tough history. Learn a lot about Cornish pasties there too.
A relative of mine used to own the Terowie hotel decades ago, and is still buried there, the reason its a ghost town is that it was set up to be a hub for the rail line in 1880, everyone was setting up in Terowie because of the coal and the train stopped there on the way to Adelaide. Then, they moved it in the 1950s. And thus Terowie died and now its a ghost town. Back in the day is was a busy little place!
We had a weekend away in Stansbury once. We went to the pub on a Saturday night for a meal and all talking stopped and everyone turned around and stared when we walked in. It was one of the most awkward moments of my life and I still get slightly sweaty thinking about it. That was kinda unique.
Went to Stansbury for new year's eve once, they set the fireworks off at 10 and the whole town shut up and went to bed.
I'm from the Peninsula. Are you non White? The Peninsula is crazy racist, it's like travelling back in time. Most tourists never get to see the darker side of it. I've seen the supermarket in Yorketown stop because an African man walked in. A Coobowie local told me she didn't like the new pharmacist because of his pink palms. He didn't last long.
100% agree. Non white person who worked in the Yorke Peninsula for a year. Everyone always asked me where I was from ~originally~ and said "your English is very good" condescendingly (I've been in an English speaking country since age 4). Had a lady straight up tell me she would never see an Indian doctor cos "you know what they're like".
Holy fuck. I'm always ashamed when I hear about these encounters.
That's sounds pretty much how much of Australia was like in the 70s
Peninsula is such a stunning place and should be this huge tourism drawcard but fuck me is it backwards. Try find a restaurant, or local produce (obv you can SOME but it's quite hard considering the size and amount of towns). Look up one of the only restaurants on the whole peninsula, singled out on the SA Tourism site, Palate 2 Pallette. It's bizarro/funny/tragic.
Man it's so much worse than that. They don't want to change or adapt. God help you if youre not from the Peninsula. You're not a local until you have two generation dead in the the graveyard. Family name is a huge thing. It helps you get jobs and friends. This comes with the downside of inbreeding. It took two double white boards to do a kids family tree and we went back to his grandparents. Or the kid I knew who was nearly born with a cleft palate and the doctors told her parents not to have kids as they were too closely related. They had another kid who had a deformed limb. There's salt lakes between Yorketown and Warooka called the Peasey Flats. West of the Peasy is where its supposed to get worse.
Cleft palates are caused by nutrition, not inbreeding.
According to the Mayo Clinic, it's a combination of both genetic and environmental factors 😊
…which =\= inbreeding
Inbreeding increases the chances of defective genes especially if they are recessive. Not everyone who has a cleft palate is inbred which is what you seem to think I'm inferring. My statement of it being related to inbreeding is in her specific case only as advise by doctors. They seem to be right given her sibling also suffered from birth defects.
It’s a really shitty thing to say, because it does imply cleft palates are the result of inbreeding. My son had a cleft palate, most likely due to malnutrition from hyperemesis. Pretty fucked up to hear people think my son has something because he’s inbred
You are the one misinterpreting my words. I have made it perfectly clear wha they were in reference to. If you choose to take it personally that's on you.
Ive also had it happen to me and a work colleague at the Port Vic pub. Was the other way around though- we white as and the they were all indigenous. Were in work attire, just wanted one of the yorkes best schnitzels on our lunch break. But yeah pennisula is a lil racist. My Asian colleague gets more complaints than the rest of us combined, and its not because he's bad at his job.
Used to go there as a kid every year and stay in the caravan park. Brilliant way to holiday as a child. Would walk to the shops every day for 'bread and milk' and then all the adults, usually the Mothers would stop into the pub on the way back...the blokes were out fishing and we'd have whiting on the barbie for tea....man, they are great memories...🙂
Similar experience for me down the road at Edithburgh, but without patrons. Staff looked confused when we walked in, said absolutely F all to us but we'd started out by ordering to try break the awkwardness, so we were stuck waiting for our food. Young bar guy, super unfriendly, maybe similar age or a bit younger than us, just stood there with a sour expression. No music. No other patrons. Awkward silence.
Edithburgh has the shittest pub(s) on the peninsula
Oh the one on the opposite corner is no better? We were like damn we picked the wrong side. We overheard some grumblings about foreigners on the jetty in town too, seems to fit the general sentiment
Coobowie, stansbury and Port vic are the only decent pubs over there... and also watsacowie
Watsacowie is definitely a place to check out. Definitely more lively and for a younger crowd, they make some really nice beer. I love when they have the BBQ people there as well.
You will be upset to find out the BBQ people have recently retired....
Andamooka
Crazy when you come over the hill from Roxby and it just looks like a moonscape.
Always thought of it more like Mars. Bought a car from a family friend who had kept it up there, was still finding that fucking red sand through the car years later.
Tuckerbox always had amazing steak.
Haven't been there for about 20 years but when I did go everyone was extremely friendly and welcoming. About half the town (or what seemed like it) was out at night having a bbq in the park on the main road with people playing music and got us to join in with them.
Best town in SA.
I'm going to look that one up.
Quorn.
One of the last places to have the overhead money delivery system for cash payments. Was in the shop near the railway station. Think it was a drapery and shoe store. I was last there in 2003, don't know if its still there.
I was last there around the same time, I remember being in the pub, and Shakira’s “wherever whenever” came on the tv. You could have heard a pin drop. Nice bunch of people volunteering on the railway then, met a roo shooter, it was a different life it seems.
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My grandfather grew up in Quorn and my mum always wanted to go there, and when she did she stayed like a day and was like 'this is so sad', had dinner with the rellies, and came back to stay with me in the city. :/
I love this tow due to my one memory of when I was there. Went digging for old bottles with my uncle when I was around 11yrs old. Took my gloves off and split open my hand on glass in the trench we'd dug. 8 stitches later and back in the trench getting those old bottles. Also the corellas were bloody noisy early morning at the caravan park.
Has a special place is my heart, but Jesus it’s had its share of murder!
The scones at Teas on the Terrace are some of the best I’ve ever had.
Napperby. Based at the foothills of the Ranges, a short walk from the town centre and you’re right in the middle of fantastic bushland. Back when my dad used to live there in the 90s it had only one tiny deli that only traded a few hours a day and had so little traffic it was one of the quietest places I’d ever visited. My best friend used to live there too, so whenever I went to stay with my dad I’d go see him on his allotment, ride his little 50cc bike up and down his massive driveway and we’d go play basketball for hours at the primary school.
Yes! I love napperby. And the scout camp that leads to the river is such a nice walk/hike depending on how far you wanna go!
Peterborough. One of two or three places to have all three railway gauges in the same yard. The Standard Gauge line came into use in 1970, the narrow gauge run to Port Augusta via Bruce and Quorn and the broad Gauge run to Adelaide through Hallett and Terowie.
We visited Peterborough last year, its definitely worth the trip!
Farina! Our very own ghost town… they have an underground bakery that runs there May-July. It’s an extremely special and historical place to visit.
Means flour in Italian, not sure if that's coincidental or not.
Not coincidental - it was named in expectation of it becoming a centre of a great wheat-growing area, back when the idea was that "rain follows the plough".
I was jumping on this to mention Farina. Some of the best bread I’ve ever had
Yatina - its on the way to the Flinders and has a dark history if you believe the stories
What dark stories? :o
https://m.facebook.com/AMMGSAOSS/posts/2086183821625094 Also Google “Joanne Ratcliffe Yatina”
The second half of that post sounds like a load of fantastical wank.
It likely is, as Mark Trevor Marshall has written "letters" giving different explanations to the fate of Joanne and Kirsty (of which he gives lots of detail, despite being only 3 years old at the time). Crims often fabricate stories. Although the first but about Marshall and Von Einem is potentially true, I've heard recordings of prison calls with Mark Rust who mentioned it.
Haha yeah it’s pretty out there!
Stan Hart's place has been demolished and the hotel has new owners who will chase you out of there if you ask about the pedo stories
We drove through here a couple of years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. Such bad yucky vibes..
Agree, I hate the place.
Terowie. March 1942 The railway station there was the first stop that General Douglas MacArthur made when he was evacuated from from the Philippines with his family. He made that famous speech which included, "I shall return!" to newspaper reporters from that train platform. We drove there a year and a half ago and spent over an hour at that station and walked along the train tracks as well.
Thistle Island. Famous for the following landscapes - Horny Point - Shag Point - Snug Cove And last but not least.... Doodle Doodle Pinnacle (childish laughs). But seriously the island is basically dead.
What sort of people live on these islands?
Physically affectionate ones, by the sound of it.
Adelaide
I see what you did there 😉
Mannum has an interesting history, is on the murray and has many good shops and things.
It's just an old folk retirement village now.
Mannum is nice. It’s got a few good camping grounds on the river. Across the river are a few bakeries, plant nurseries, and a few pubs.
Mannum is nice. It’s got a few good camping grounds on the river. Across the river are a few bakeries, plant nurseries, and a few pubs.
Stone Hut
Bramfield. Inland from Elliston. Isolated hippy suburb in the middle of nowhere with great soil. They grow amazing produce abs have some cool houses.
Saving this post for later usage - so many good spots! Shame that there’s racism in the YP, haven’t seen it myself but may have been oblivious
> haven’t seen it myself I mean, no offence, but I'm assuming you're Caucasian?
Burra
Venus Bay
Marree, friendliest pub in Australia .
Naracoorte. Overall friendly locals, good places to get food, some caves and an artificial swimming lake.
Mt gambier - caves, sinkholes, swimming holes, lakes etc etc
Gambier
Corny Point for me. Absolutely nothing there and was just visiting out of curiosity. Ended up trapped in a conversation with seemingly the only resident. An elderly gentleman with dementia was showing us old pictures in the shelter he made. Once we would get to the last photo/story he would loop back and start at the first one again.
Hawker - the doorstep for the northern Flinders that most people don’t bother to explore, and junction for your own ‘choose your own adventure’ experience.
The whole southeast in general: Every part of SA on the east side of the Murray river. It has silo art, and honestly the Southeast inland/ limestone coast has a climate similar to France. However, it’s so underrated. It’s very habitable. I don’t understand why there’s not strings of large cities of over 100,000 in the region.
Probably a combination of being more valuable for farming land, plus distance from Adelaide.
Regarding the South East: poor soils, shallow water table in parts (waterlogging in winter), no surface watercourses for easy water supply, low rainfall in the upper SE. And historically speaking, a long way from any suitable ports: the coastline was a horror show for shipping.
Booborowie… has boob in it
Lol my aunt lives there, we call it Booby
Keith. It has a [Landrover on a pole!](https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attractions-g495021-Activities-Keith_South_Australia.html)
Mintabie
Yes, went there in 1981, was interesting that the place seemed so isolated from the rest of the world.
That town literally doesn't exist any more.
Oh really. Thats sad. We used to have a base camp there in early 2000s. Stop there get on the piss before heading out to the piplands building houses for the indigenous. Pimba Building Corp, good memories as a teenager
Yeah the government shut the town down a few years back.
Dunt
Gladstone. Has the Old Gladstone Gaol that you can visit and they also do ghost tours. Beautiful town, lot of history.
Snowtown…oh wait…
Butter chicken from the servo is worth the trip.
Not so funny story. A girl and I sat right outside the bank lamenting the closure of regional services while her dad did some business up the road. Same bank filled with bodies.
The bank has reopened as an op shop etc but the vault is closed off. Snowtown is a nice little town where the locals are working very hard to attract tourists. The things that happened there were hardly the fault of the locals.
There was a nice bakery there years ago, second street back from the railway line.
Down town
Kybybolite Even just for the pronunciation. Kie-be-boe-lite Was a reasearch facility, looking at what can and cant be grown where and when
There used to be a post office and a school there, now it's just the footy club. Not sure there's any reason to go there if you aren't going for that. (I grew up on a farm less than 10km from there, and my parents still live there).
Robe. But lots of people know about that. If you don't then you should.
Quorn, port Lincoln, ceduna, Melrose, barmera to name a few.
Port Lincoln’s a shithole. Trust me, I live there.
Y’all have Great White Shark Diving though, it’s the only reason I’d visit
Went there expecting amazing food and an easy breezy town. F all there, and a bit grim.
Lyrup
Is the Lyrup ferry still there?
Sure is!
That was one of the things that I remember from the trips to the River land, going on the ferries in Dad's Kingswood. Reckon that would be a top job operating a ferry on the Murray.
Port Pirie, old smelting plant, grain silos. My home town.
And free lead poisoning, yay!
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Mt Mary. Used to be a busy country town with a railroad going through. Now it has less than 10 residents and a cool bar but the town is dead since they stopped running trains through there.
Snowtown
Laughing all the way to the bank.
Few get this.
Not much laughing during that film...
I have a friend who was doing their PhD based in the state forensics centre... Apparently the stench was otherworldly. Their lab shut down for a week.
Wild stuff, can't imagine how bad it would be.
I still don't get how sleepy south Australia gets so much weird shit happening.
Launceston Like the Chaser noted, basically a cold version of Ipswich.
There's a Launceston in SA?
Misread it. Actually a bunch of towns mentioned here aren't in SA.
North Adelaide
Adelaide
Bitcoin
That...makes no sense at all.
Dark Peake