Cape Spencer

Cape Spencer is the dramatic full stop at the south-western corner of the Yorke Peninsula, where the gulf waters give way to the open Southern Ocean. A short boardwalk leads from the car park to a lookout beside the squat white lighthouse, and on a clear day Kangaroo Island sits low on the horizon across Investigator Strait.

The cliffs here are sheer and constantly worked by swell and wind, and the lookout is one of the best places in the park to watch the weather roll in. Ospreys nest on the offshore stacks, and dolphins are often visible in the surge below.

It is an easy detour from the main park road and pairs naturally with Ethel Beach and West Cape just up the coast. Sunset turns the whole headland gold, and the wind almost always has something to say.