{"id":6851,"date":"2015-04-07T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:45:59","slug":"south-australia-road-trip-second-valley-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6851","title":{"rendered":"South Australia road trip – Second Valley Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst staying a couple of nights in Port Noarlunga<\/a> on my rental car road trip<\/a> from Adelaide<\/a>, I decided to do a day trip south down to Cape Jervis and back through the inland of Fleurieu Peninsula.<\/p>\n

It took me through the nice old town of Normansville which was a great spot for lunch before heading down to one of the most photographed beaches in South Australia – Second Valley Beach.<\/p>\n

Second Valley Beach has only a small area of sandy beach and a small fishing jetty but it is surrounded by some very rugged looking rock formations – here are some of my efforts in the early afternoon on a cloudy day – not the best time to create aesthetic imagery so I decided to convert these to monochrome to emphasise the textures.<\/p>\n

These were all taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1<\/a> Micro Four Thirds camera with the Olympus mZD 12-40mm f\/2.8 lens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Looking back at the fishing jetty and the concrete path that allows one to walk around the cliff to the rocky cove:<\/p>\n

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To give a sense of scale, note how small the people are in this photo:<\/p>\n

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Just past Second Valley is another inlet, Rapid Bay, this has a much longer, more modern jetty, and sweeping views along the coast to the north but is not as picturesque.<\/p>\n

Next I head further south to Cape Jervis where there is a car ferry to Kangaroo Island, but as this is really an option for a several days expoloration of the fascinating island, I opted instead to explore nearby Talisker Conservation Park with its protected remnants of an 19th century Cornish tin mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst staying a couple of nights in Port Noarlunga on my rental car road trip from Adelaide, I decided to do a day trip south down to Cape Jervis and back through the inland of Fleurieu Peninsula. It took me through the nice old town of Normansville which was a great spot for lunch before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,241,14,335],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-olympus","tag-south-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t