Port Wakefield

 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.




Location: 13 Wharf Cres, Port Wakefield SA 5550, Australia

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