Bluff Beach Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

History

Bluff Beach looks west over Hardwicke Bay on the Yorke Peninsula. If you have photos, family stories or records of the beach and the shacks, get in touch.

  1. Always

    Narungga Country

    Bluff Beach lies on the traditional lands of the Narungga people, the first peoples of the Yorke Peninsula.

  2. Shack days

    The Bluff Beach shack site

    The name comes from the Bluff Beach Shack Site, a long-established group of holiday shacks on the coast overlooking Hardwicke Bay.

  3. 1999

    A locality of its own

    In May 1999 Bluff Beach was given official boundaries under its long-used name. The locality takes in the former shack site.

  4. Today

    Farmland, coast and community

    Most of the locality is farmland, with a conservation strip running along the coastline and homes along the shore at the old shack site. 41 people lived here at the 2021 Census.