Tracks on the Yorke Pennisular

I have this one on CD and it provides good info...

Hema Cape York

With respect to tracks: No idea if it "shows them all" but its probably a good start.

Cheers
Greg

G'day Trev,

I happen to be the Pesident of the Yorke Peninsula 4WD Club.....(but that don't make me an expert on the tracks etc...hehehe)

You can drive along a lot of the beaches on the peninsula.....we were down there weekend before last just south of Pt Victoria. I haven't got a map that shows you where yo can or can't go. Our club was involved with an effort some years ago to formalise the tracks' situation on the YP and we recently had our Club Secretary (EO Member "Seashells" aka, Mauri Gill of Minlaton) attend a meeting to see if there is anything we could/should be doing to assist in this matter. However, the whole thing is like trying to juggle jelly!!!! Local Govt Councils, Aboriginal spokespeople, Land Management bods, Environmental Protection dudes....etc etc. The whole thing is a friggin joke!!!! But we try to remain positive that eventually we will get some gazetted tracks along the beaches....Mauri reckons they ARE making headway.

If you're coming through Kadina at all, let me know and I'll see what's going on.

Cheers mate

Roachie

Best area on the penninsula is Formby bay Access to the beach can be had from Daly heads and you can drive south to where it is terminated by cliffs. Access to these cliffs can be had by road where (walking) south again takes you to another shore break beach. The Southern end of the formby bay beach is (was) one of the least visited beaches (especially compared to browns beach) and had good gutters with good surf fishing. Other good spots with more sheltered bays/beaches are further south such as Gleesons landing and gym beach

Hi Trevor,

I had the good fortune to spend a week fishing down the bottom end about a month ago. Sorry I can't help with maps but when you posted your question I had a look at Google Earth out of curiosity.

http://earth.google.com/

No substitute for good contacts like Roachie and Davo but I was surprised at the detail you can see at the bottom of Yorke Peninsula.

Skullduggerie

Hi Trevor
Dave here, I'm a local at Corny Point. At Formby Bay & Gym beach, there is absolutely no access for 4WD or anything else but the 2 legged kind. It has been like that for several years now. There are a couple of spots along the "foot" (western side of peninsula) heading south from Corny Point. Head to Swincers Rocks, just poke your nose in & around and I think you can still find a way onto beach if you try. The next spot South from there (back onto Marion Bay Rd) is at Gleesons Landing.
There you will find an old hand- waterpump about 100m back from beach, turn right onto the track there and follow down for a few Kms, and you will come to an opening in the dunes which will bring you out in the middle of Gleesons landing beach. Great fishing etc. Heading south again towards Innes NP you can access Daly Heads from Gleesons via a road to the left of the old hand pump. Turn right at the end of this and it will bring you onto the Daly Headland, very scenic. If you follow this track around it will bring you to the northern end of Formby Bay. There are stairs to access Dusthole beach (formby bay). Magnificent!
From there, heading towards Innes, there are many beautiful beaches along the way but unfortunately no 4WD access. Gym beach is very nice for picnic etc. This road used to connect through to the northern end of the park but now national Parks have cut off through- access so you would have to go back onto Marion bay rd,& through Marion Bay to get to the park. The only 4WD beach access in the park is through Fishermans village onto Pondalowie Bay. There is a widely distributed "mudmap" at all local shops put out by tourism that will show most of this. It is A4 sheet of "Bottom End" I could scan it for you if you need it.
Enjoy your trip to the only leg that Australia has to stand on! Sorry for long thread.

Yes Davoe, things have changed. They blocked off the access to dusthole beach must've been just after you were here then. The house behind the dunes has been subdivided and now has another 10-15 homes/80acre blocks around it. And yes, before that there was access up the sand dunes, but now both ends of dusthole are not accessible to 4WD.