Innes National Park

We spent the full day at Innes National Park. It’s located on the very southwestern cape of the Yorke Peninsula. It became a national park in the 1970’s, when the gypsum mine had to shut down.  You can still see remainders of the mining operations throughout the park. Most prominent is the Stenhouse Bay Jetty with it large funnel structure feeding gypsum from top of the hill to the ships docked at the jetty. Nature though has taken back most of it.

The park is a sanctuary for roos, a rare species of wallabies, emus and numerous birds and reptiles. In the morning, we drove to the very northeast end of the park at Browns Beach, which provides a spectacular view on a stretch of sandy beaches framed by mighty dunes. Throughout the day we worked our way back towards the entrance of the park.