{"id":8,"date":"2026-02-15T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/?p=8"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:21:06","slug":"ardrossan-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/2026\/02\/15\/ardrossan-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardrossan, the start"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">I left Willunga Saturday morning 14th Feb, after some poor navigation I got to Adrossan around 2pm. It was very windy. I went down to the boat ramp, and there were whitecaps out there and the forecast had it gusting at 50kph. I decided today was not the day to start, so I went to the Adrossan caravan park and got an unpowered site for $32.<br \/>\nOn Sunday morning I cooked breakfast, packed up the tent and got to the boat ramp at around 8:30am. I didn&#8217;t really have a good launch spot. I dragged the kayak on a mound of seaweed. I packed up the kayak which is always hard the first time. As well I had lots of food, 19 days worth. I had stuff jammed everywhere including some at my feet in the cockpit. I drove the LandCruiser to the storage facility where it was going to sit for 3 weeks, about 1.5km away. I left the LandCruiser and walked back to the kayak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The tide was dropping, the kayak was very heavy and it took me 30 minutes to drag it out to the retreating sea. I got to the water. I was really worried I had overloaded the kayak, and I feared it would not float. However it was fine and sat in the water as normal.<br \/>\nI headed out finally at 11am. Water was very shallow, I had to keep a fair way out to keep afloat. I stopped for lunch at 12:30pm, but the wind was picking up coming from the south east as an almost head wind. I got going but about around mid afternoon I decided I would pull in for a rest. By the time I landed the wind had gotten worse, so I thought I would look for a campsite, around 1km south of Rogues Point. I had only done 10km which was poor.<br \/>\nThere were really not many good campsites. I walked up and down until I found a piece of sand next to the cliff. I had a high tide at 6:20pm, and an even higher one at 5:39am. I think it&#8217;s going to be ok. I will be getting up at 5am to make sure all is well<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23\" src=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260214_230937737_copy_3060x2304-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seaweed covered launch spot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dji_fly_20260215_180020_373_1771140696605_photo_optimized_copy_3000x1687-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Willunga Saturday morning 14th Feb, after some poor navigation I got to Adrossan around 2pm. It was very windy. I went down to the boat ramp, and there were whitecaps out there and the forecast had it gusting at 50kph. I decided today was not the day to start, so I went to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/2026\/02\/15\/ardrossan-the-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ardrossan, the start&#8221;<\/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\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregspurgin.net\/kayak-yorke-peninsula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}