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Mutton Cove

Mutton Cove Conservation Park is a park in South Australia and is nearby to Snapper Point, Lefevre Peninsula .Mutton Cove aim to preserve the diverse vegetation of Mutton Cove and to protect the habitat of native birds, reptiles and migratory birds. The Mutton Cove Ships’ Graveyard is one of five abandonment sites within the Port Adelaide area. The Excelsior was built in Scotland and first worked on the north coast of NSW and later from Tahiti. In the early 1900s it transferred to the control of flour millers (John Darling and Sons) (1908) and the SA Farmers Union Cooperative (1912). In its later life it was a coal hulk before being laid up and abandoned.

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Uploaded on March 30, 2016
Taken on February 14, 2016