Adventure travellers 'should visit Australia's ship graveyards'
Thursday, February 25, 2010Adventure-bound imaginative explorers who enjoy hiking have been encouraged to head to South Australia's coasts and explore its vast ship graveyards.
According to the state's official tourism board, there are 19 sites that contain between one and 25 scuttled boats, many of which were deliberately abandoned.
Hikers with a maritime fascination may find this particularly interesting, as "wrecks abandoned at these official graveyards demonstrate shipbuilding technologies from the 1850s to the 1960s and represent the diversity of craft that plied South Australian waters during the 19th and 20th centuries".
Such vessels include steamships, windjammers, tugs, coastal traders, fishing boats, ferries, dredges and barges.
Those who want to get closer to the ships may want to jump in a kayak and explore the graveyards that are in shallow waters, the body suggested.
Visitors to South Australia could also like to head to Adelaide, Kangaroo Island, Flinders Ranges, Eyres Peninsula or Barossa, all of which can be found in the state.
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