*Photos will be added when I’ve decent WiFi*
An easy day in Victor Harbour to rest and recuperate after our late night yesterday (which was worth it for the penguins). Travelling is wonderful, but is actually quite tiring – researching, planning, booking, preparing.
Main event was a short car trip to Rosetta Head Jetty:
Where we could look back at the town:
And viewpoint:
Where I learnt a little about the area:
Australia has about one million different native species. More than 80% of the country’s flowering plants, mammals, reptiles and frogs are unique to Australia, along with most of its freshwater fish and almost half of its birds.
Native names of prominent places in the Encounter Bay area:
I’m not sure why the European versions took over when most of the places already had names. It’s a subtle insight into the treatment of Aboriginals. Even the South Australian Museum in Adelaide was noticeably light on the subject. In fact, an information board here had been vandalised, and the sentence “Steadily, the Ramindjeri/Ngarrindjeri people were displaced…” had the last word crossed out and “murdered” written above it.
Victor Harbour proposered when seaside holidays became fashionable by the 1870s with guesthouses and hotels springing up in response to the increased demand.
And apparently, there are “leafy seadragons” in these waters. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any. Interesting fact: the males give birth to the young.
Found a series of three diagrams neatly explaining the geological formation of the area:
Flies shelter on your back if it’s windy – but at least it means they’re not in your face:
Houses are bungalows, although a few near the sea were low blocks of flats – all with balconies:
View across Victor Harbour – you can just make out the causeway to Granite Island:
And today’s sign of the day: