About Yorke Peninsula

There's no such thing as a free lunch - unless you're on holiday on Yorke Peninsula. 

Here, you can stroll in the shallows to catch blue swimmer crabs by the bucketload, dive for crayfish and scallops, or throw out a line for garfish, tommy ruffs and King George whiting.

If fishing isn't your thing, explore times gone by at one of Yorke Peninsula's many fascinating heritage museums, hike through untouched wilderness, taste Barley Stacks Shiraz at the region's first winery, or relax with a book under a beach umbrella. And the locals are so friendly.  You'll be warmed by the welcome and reinvigorated by your stay.

Rich limestone soils give Yorke Peninsula the reputation of being some of the richest farmland in Australia - it's sometimes referred to as the 'Barley Capital of the World'. Yorke Peninsula attracts over 600,000 visitors a year and with a surge in coastal development every style of holiday is well catered for.

Relaxed and laid back is the perfect way to describe the Yorke Peninsula lifestyle.


Yorke on the wild side
Journalist Christine McCabe recently holidayed on Yorke Peninsula. She wrote of people relaxing on Yorke Peninsula beaches, who would "pause, now and then, to gaze across the flat, copper-burnished sea, the undramatic but strangely beautiful prospect that South Australians treasure". Read her article online at The Australian.