The National Parks in SA are really well set up. We had spent the day at Coffin Bay National Park just 2 days prior. Here we experienced our first bogged in sand adventure. Well it was fun until we had tried the digging down and adding bracken under the wheels, then onto sticks, then onto logs, all to no avail.
Eventually a man in a Toyota came around the bend, nearly collected us but realising we were bogged and in a Hyundai started to show how how real men are prepared. % minutes later and we were free. We spent the rest of the day nursing our 4wd ego and Dan fished while I lay in the sun and relax
Well back to Port Lincoln. The Cape Donington Lighthouse is a 32 metres high hexagonal grey concrete tower built in 1905. The cape was named after Donington, Lincolnshire, England, the birthplace of Matthew Flinders. If I was scoring on this one I gave it a 3/10.
Being a newer lighthouse it lacked the mystery and history of days gone by and tragedy that so often is linked to these towers. However the area is steeped in history.
Matthew Flinders was the first European to arrive in the region, whilst circumnavigating the Australian continent on HMS Investigator in 1802. He climbed Stamford Hill where he surveyed the Lower Eyre Peninsula. Eight crew members of the Investigator, including two officers, were the first Europeans to drown in the dangerous waters at the southern end of Jusseau Peninsula, whilst in search of fresh water. Numerous names in the area are associated with this event, including Cape Catastrophe, numerous islands named after the deceased and Memory Cove, where a tablet was erected by Flinders in their memory.So once again the tragic stories associated with these waters forge the building of these formidable towers.
See the lighthouse and view from the link below.
http://www.360cities.net/image/cape-donington-lighthouse-lincoln-np-south-australia#-160.39,18.83,70.0
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