Holidays are good. They are good because they are not everyday, the everyday becomes routine and familiarity makes it, well, everyday. For x-mas of 2013 my family took off to Southern Yorke Peninsula for a holiday. Thought I might share a few images of our time there because the place is special still.
This little corner of the peninsula is, for the best part, relatively untouched by housing developers. There is some going on, its beach front after all, but its yet to destroy the region. Housing developers have NO CLUE how to preserve that which attracted them to an area in the first place. Or no care perhaps, just profits. Either way once serious development begins, that “something special” is lost.
My favourite of these southern towns was not coastal. It was in the middle – Yorketown. It doesn’t have yuppie cafes, trendy bars, upmarket shopping malls. In fact quite the opposite. It has the almost disappeared genuine country town attitude. It has beautiful old buildings, a main street with no Woolies or Target or Kmart or any of the corporate rubbish that litters towns-cities. Its untouched by modern housing development of transplanted suburbs with windy pointless streets that go nowhere and from any point all you can see is another house (go to Mt Barker to see what I mean), instead the streets are wide and straight. Its a TOWN. The people are friendly and polite. And where else can you go to the local supermarket and get your groceries carried to the car for you by a staff member? Thats right – service. Remember service? Its the South Australia of my childhood and let me tell you ITS GOOD. Its almost gone and while it was such a treat, it was also sad to be reminded of how much we have, as a community, lost.

Look after yourself Yorketown, cherish what you have, keep those housing developers and corporate destroyers away!

We stayed at Coobowie. Great little place, great little general store and GREAT pub. Where else can you go to eat a calamari schnitzel with creamy garlic prawns and not have to wear shoes and a tie to be let in for food of such quality? For that matter where else can you get a calamari “schnitzel”? Edithburgh is close by, Sultana Point beaches, south coast beaches, the wind farm, fishing… And nothing you have to do. After all that’s what holidays are about. Doing nothing you don’t want to do, when you do want to do it.

Enough words, a few pictures to tell a short story.