Saturday 8 December 2018
After an early morning run we headed off exploring the area of Wallaroo where we stayed last night. It was another town of industry.

“Wallaroo is a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, 160 km northwest of Adelaide. It is one of the three Copper Triangle towns famed for their historic shared copper mining industry, and known together as “Little Cornwall”, the other two being Kadina, about 8 km to the east, and Moonta, about 18 km south.”

It was a nice little explore of the town. We then headed to Kadina where we went to the “Farmshed Museum”,

“The Farm Shed museum tells the story of Australian dryland farming, the local copper mining industry and the social history of Kadina, through thematic and photographic displays, across half a hectare of undercover exhibition space including the historic Matta House built in 1863.”

This was very interesting and had a varied display of old industry and farm equipment, and other general old things including War uniforms, doctors instruments, kitchen appliances, etc.

Then off we went to the 3rd town of the triangle – Moonta. From 1861 to 1923, it was the centre of a copper mining industry that formed colonial South Australia’s largest mining enterprise. we went to a few mine sites and saw the remains of some of the buildings.

Then we headed to Balgowan – our home for tonight. we went for a 18km return bike ride along part of the “Walk the Yorke” trail which is 500km of walking and cycling trails around the outskirts of the Yorke Peninsula.

The end of a long day of exploring.