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Some photos of the only "historic land based boat storage in the Southern Hemisphere"

This is down on Yorke Peninsula, S.A. great place to spend some time.bluff5.jpgbluff3.jpgbluff4.jpgbluff.jpgbluff1.jpg



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Informative photos. We visited along that coast in March this year. Didn't actually call in to that spot, unfortunately. A few of the places just north and south of there though. I think there are still some slight remnants of boat activity at Second Valley on the Fleurieu Peninsula too.

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Great snaps showing the ingenuity of the early fisher folk when there was no "safe harbour" for their precious boats.

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Second Valley has none anymore. It has all been cleared away. I do remember the tin boat sheds (about 1954 ) and the railway lines down to the water .The sheds had windlass's in them to wind in the boat trollies



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What an interesting place, thanks for sharing.


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