{"id":107,"date":"2026-02-28T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:20:03","slug":"wattle-point-to-east-of-kemp-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/2026\/02\/28\/wattle-point-to-east-of-kemp-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wattle Point to east of Kemp Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a warm night but it rained a couple of times. I woke up early to cook breakfast and get going early, but the rain slowed me down. I left at 8:45am. I had to drag the kayak about 50m because the tide had gone out of the shallow area I was camped near. This was the section of the paddle I was most concerned about, the Troubridge lighthouse section. It was 5km of exposed cliffs with nowhere to land. The swell wasn’t too bad, it needed a few detours to get past low rocks before I could start it. Then I was out on the Troubridge lighthouse section. I could see the lighthouse through the most and rain.<\/p>\n

It went ok, dodging rocks, until I got near Troubridge lighthouse where I found a beach I could land on. It was a beach and cave. I had a stretch, and then headed back out. I left the shore but didn’t time the swell right. I went through a wave that was breaking on the way out and got a bit wet as a result. I got past the lighthouse and the whole cliff section and stopped at another beach. I had another stretch and tried to warm myself up. It was continuous rain, and because I had got so wet leaving the cave beach, I felt cold. When I left this beach, as I was cresting a wave, I had two dolphins swim underneath the kayak, so close I was afraid I would hit them.<\/p>\n

About 1km from Kemp Bay, I could see the road in the distance, there was a rock reef that protected the shore, making it easy to land in the swell, and as well make it easy to leave tomorrow morning. On top of the benefits here, I found a ledge up in the sand dunes that made a great campsite well above the beach.<\/p>\n

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Paddling through the most and rain, Troubridge lighthouse in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Landing at the cave beach<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
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    Stopped at a beach and cave just before Troubridge Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Ploughing through the wave that caught me leaving the cave beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Two Dolphins when I left another beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Camped 1km east of Kemp Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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    It was a warm night but it rained a couple of times. I woke up early to cook breakfast and get going early, but the rain slowed me down. I left at 8:45am. I had to drag the kayak about 50m because the tide had gone out of the shallow area I was camped near. … Continue reading “Wattle Point to east of Kemp Bay”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}