Willunga, SA
Willunga, SAWe left Victor Harbour and took the road up the Inman River valley.
Selwyn's Rock, better known as Glacier Rock, is in a creek bed just beside the road a short way up the valley. This rock was discovered by Selwyn, a geologist in the late ninetenth century and is still the only obvious evidence of glaciation in Australia. The rock is 500 million years old and bears the very obvious gouge marks of a boulder-laden glacier said to be 250 million year old.
Driving through this countryside, one is struck by the ever changing landscape. Unlike the rest of Australia where the scenery might stay pretty much unchanged over several hours or even days driving, the flora here keep changing over distances measured in tens of kilometres.
As we approached Cape Jervis, this effect became even more pronounced with radically different scenery around every hill.
Cape Jervis is, like Land's End in Cornwall, the ulimate piece of land before the ocean. It is rugged and, as we saw it, windswept and forbidding.
The ferry for Kangaroo Island leaves from Port Jervis but, having checked the prices and found that the return trip for the Motley and the two of us would have used up a week's budget in two hours of travel, we decided to go elsewhere.
We stopped for lunch at Second Bay. This is a tiny inlet with a very short pier and a miniscule beach. One wonders what First Bay must be like. Every place, however has its unique characteristic. This place must be the only place in the world where the waves actually run away from the beach out to sea!.
As so to Willunga.