Sandy Creek, South Australia
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Sandy Creek South Australia |
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Sandy Creek Hotel
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 Sandy Creek
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| Coordinates | 34°36′11″S 138°49′34″E / 34.60306°S 138.82611°ECoordinates: 34°36′11″S 138°49′34″E / 34.60306°S 138.82611°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 439 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5350 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Barossa Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Schubert | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||||
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Sandy Creek is a town in South Australia. The town is situated approximately 6 kilometres east of Gawler and is the last town passed through before reaching Barossa Valley at Lyndoch. At the 2011 census, Sandy Creek had a population of 439.
The Sandy Creek Conservation Park is nearby as is Tindo, a members only gated nudist enclave with several permanent residents and a fully functioning caravan park.
The surrounding fields are often populated by wild kangaroos and a significant brown snake population. Nearby Cockatoo Valley is named for the flocks of corellas, a native parrot, which denude the pine trees and feed on the grain crops. Daytime temperatures can reach as high as 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees f) and often exceed 40 degrees. A Green belt between Sandy Creek and Gawler has been maintained and is policy, however this is being steadily nibbled away as sub-divisions are approved in order to meet the increasing housing stock demands required to service Defence Force, vineyard and mining labour needs. Nearby Williamstown is the site of the famous "Whispering Wall", a dam where it is possible, because of a fluke of construction and acoustics, to hear a person whisper when at opposite ends of the dam wall.
The Sandy Creek Hotel, which has been open over 120 years, is a famous watering hole. The hotel is best known for the prodigious amounts of alcohol served to the US soldiers during World War II, who had a camp in close proximity. Several of these soldiers have returned in later years and have placed a plaque within the hotel in memory of the good times they experienced there and of fallen comrades. It is believed this pub still holds the South Australian record for the greatest amount of beer served in a single week. This was set, unsurprisingly, after the announcement of the ceasefire at the end of World War II.
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