East across Gulf St Vincent from Adelaide. This area is popular with weekenders from Adelaide. It is all rather flat and green and low-key: very much the suburban idea of a pleasant holiday spot. Reasonable fishing, some pleasant beaches for the kids, and Cornish pasties.

Copper was discovered in the north-eastern part of the peninsula in 1859, and this attracted a large number of miners from Cornwall in the west of England. The three towns of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo formed what became known as the Copper Triangle. The copper boom petered out in the 1920s, but the region is still known as Little Cornwall. The three towns still have a few relics of the old copper-mining days.

Further south, the coast has a number of beaches. However, the road follows the shore along the opposite east coast, making the beaches here more accessible. From the seaside resort of Edithburgh, at the end of the east coast, you can take a boat trip out to Troubridge Island, which has a colony of Fairy Penguins. From Edithburgh you can also take the picturesque road out to Stenhouse Bay. Just by here, at the tip of the peninsula, is Innes National Park. This has some impressive cliffs, excellent surfing beaches (some of which are dangerous for swimmers) and the wreck of the good ship Ethel, which foundered here almost a century ago.

Winter sun: the Yorke Peninsula is popular with Australians in search of sun in the Southern Hemisphere winter, September to March.