Minnipa Tourist Information Bay
by Klaus Mayer
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Minnipa is a small town servicing surrounding grain farms and tourists travelling along National Highway 1 or the nearby Gawler Ranges National Park. The town is 250 kilometres north from Port Lincoln and 180 kilometres east from Ceduna inmidst a vast wheat belt. Close to town are a few interesting granite rock formations such as Tcharkulda Rock with picnic facilities and the wave shaped Pildappa rock.
An old narrow gauge railway line between Port lincoln and Thevenard made this small town a major railway centre. The railway line was opened in 1913 when the town consisted of 2 tents only.
The town features a hotel/motel, caravan park, supermarket and a roadhouse.
The wave shaped Pildappa Rock is one of the interesting granite rock formations north of the small co...
Close to Minnipa are a few interesting granite rock formations such as Tcharkulda Rock with picnic fa...
The old rock dam is a silent witness of the immense effort of European settlers to cope with the unre...
Gawler Ranges National Park is a 163,500ha reserve 350km north-west of Adelaide protecting 21 rare an...
Spring evening at the Organ Pipes in the Gawler Ranges. The Gawler Ranges National Park offers stunni...
The old Paney sheep station was one of the earliest pastoral holdings in the Gawler Ranges which has ...
Close to the middle of the southern winter while camped just off the road in the scrub.This panorama ...
Rivers run dry most of the year in the Gawler Ranges National Park where the landscape transitions fr...
Pondanna Outstation is located at the start of Conical Hill Track in the less rocky northern area of ...
Eyre Peninsula is bordered by Spencer Gulf and Great Australian Bight with over 2,000 kilometres of coastline for fishing, whale watching, watersports, swimming with sea lions or diving with sharks.
