The Jetty Project

 A wharf, not a jetty, but it appears on the list so we visited it. If you know where to look there is still a reasonable amount of wharf, and the piles of more. It overlooks the Wakefield River, which is a small, silted creek running alongside a large field of mangroves. This entire coastline is very shallow for a long way out. It was only made a port in the 1850s as it was hard ti get the copper from Burra and Kapunda to Adelaide any other way. As it was, until it was dredged they had to use barges with little draught. After dredging it could accommodate decent sized ketches, but has obviously silted up again over the years.

 I hadn't visited Arno Bay before, but it is a pleasant and well organised township. The town itself appeared to be a square arrangement built near the highway, with a road linking it to the beachside shacks and the adjacent jetty. There was, at least, one man fishing on it. Near the end was a sign saying that boats should not moor to the jetty as it isn't strong enough. Built in 1882-3, in its prime from 1912 it was 375m long with a 90m head, and much wider. Since 1971 it is fairly standard width and only 206m long.

 Relatively recent, the initial jetty was only built in the 50s and the current jetty was constructed in 1969. Visited on a fine spring day, the Coffin Bay town jetty is very small, and L-shaped with a small arm coming off west near the base. This had a recreational fishing boat tied up, while the end of the jetty had two crab boats. There were a couple of people fishing when we arrived - they packed up soon after, but as we'd seen nobody fishing in Port Lincoln this was still an improvement. As none of this took very long, we also walked along th Coffin Bay Yacht Club jetty a few metres west. It wasn't much bigger and the platform was made of a mesh that flexed as you walked on it. There were several short fingers - so short it is hard to imagine they are used much these days.

 There are a number of jetties in Port Lincoln that we could not get to at all. The first of these, Kirton Point Jetty, used to be accessible.It is now fenced off as it is used for fuel transfers. It is only a short distance from Brennen's and visible from there. It is also curved, which is a but unusual. Then on the other side of Kirton Point, and visible from the Tourist Park, is a jetty at a private slipway. Finally, there is a large private jetty on the south side of Billy Lights Point. I'm not even sure what it is called or what company owns it.

 A small jetty on the south side of Kirton Point. It is within Port Lincooln Tourist Park and is mostly intended for guests. The first half is breakwater and the jetty itself is quite short. There is another breakwater which, with the jetty, form pincers or horns to protect a small beach.

 The big wheat jetty in Port Lincoln is properly called Brennen's Jetty, after the contractor who built it in the 1920s. The only public part is Berth 1, the arm that runs parallel to the silos. We also found that we could get some distance along the main jetty, under the grain conveyor. This section had a number of tuna boats moored on the south side and a tug on the north side. A short distance along there was a gate, but this was open and we could go another hundred metres or so, to the gate and fence which looked to be about half way along. From the base of the jetty Looking through the gate along to the end Looking back

 Louth Bay is a small, sleepy settlement on a rocky headland in Boston Bay. It has a small jetty running north amongst the rocks. Like Tumby Bay, the jetty is visibly uneven.

 It was a strange day today - very hot, but extremely windy. In the lee if was at least 30 degrees, but on the jetty it was so windy that it was hard to walk and felt much cooler. This may have been why there was nobody else on the jetty. The jetty was noticably uneven, undulating and higher on the north side.

 North of Lincoln on Boston Bay, there is really not much in North Shields. But it is on a very long, smooth, pretty beach and a pretty jetty.

 The town jetty has changed a bit since I was last here. The pool used  to be marked by wooden piles and weed-covered net. The new pool has wide floating platform edges. Some parts are very wide, which looks like it's designed to let people sunbathe. There are ladders down the inside and outside, as well as some narrow steps which some people might find easier. There are also a number of ramps which I recall as stretching down into the water but which now stop short and have ladders at their ends. Finally, there was a series of curved booms in the water beyond the jetty which look positioned to diminish the waves? These photos were taken over two days. First, some night shots taken on the 6th around 9pm. Then some photos the following morning. At this point it was extraordinarily windy. So much so that it was hard to walk straight, and you can see this in the chop.

 Day 2 of out Eyre Penninsula holiday, and today there was only one jetty. Mount Dutton Bay is on the north side out Coffin Bay. A sleepy village of holiday cabins, no shops we could see, and one jetty. Built in the 1870s and repaired in 1960 using timbers from the Louth Bay jetty, which was shortened at the same time. There was nobody on it, but a lot of shags sitting out towards the end. The mixed piles - wood and steel - are apparent above.

 I don't know whether I have ever been to Port Neill before. It's a very pleasant town, though, on a small and pretty bay. The jetty is in proportion with that. There is not much else to the town - we could see a boat ramp on the south side of the bay, and close to the jetty was a pub with one group of people sitting outside. The jetty was nice and the water looked inviting. Towards the end there was what looks like a diving or swimming platform on the southern side.

 Cowell is in Franklin Harbour - a large, shallow sandy bay with an entrance largely blocked by Entrance Island. So technically it it Franklin Harbour Jetty, but I have no idea whether anyone calls it that. When we were there the foreshore was in the middle of a major redevelopment. Right next to the jetty they were putting in pylons for a marina and it was a large building site. The bloke in the fish cafe was quite dismissive of this and seemed to think it was a white elephant created by an incompetent mayor. Anyway, it's a nice jetty. Entirely empty other than a man walking his dog. A short walk along the edge of the new marina to reach the base of the jetty first. There was a small arm on the north side and, towards the end, a wider platform on the south.

 Whyalla has two jetties and we have walked along neither of them. The northern jetty is within the steelworks and we did not see any public access. The closest we could get was the lookout on Hummocks Hill. Judging by the look we might not want to get much closer. A short distance south is the marina, and on the outside wall is a new jetty. This is brand new and wasn't actually open. The entire marina wall was fenced off, so the closest we could get was the marina boat ramp. Excitingly, it appears to be the first 'modern' jetty we have come across. There are curves, a loop, and it looks to be constructed very differently, presumably from concrete. Google maps currently still shows the previous jetty which was straight and conventional. We look forward to a closer inspection in the future.