Photographs of Starfish Hill Wind Farm

Starfish Hill was the first windfarm to be built in South Australia.
It is on the Fleurieu Peninsula, about eighty kilometres south of Adelaide.

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Written 2007/08/04, last edited 2023/10/31


Starfish Hill wind turbine



The sky looks cold - the weather was far from cold.

This turbine is on Starfish Hill itself. Some other of the turbines of Starfish Hill Wind Farm are on Salt Creek Hill.

Contact, David K Clarke – ©
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Turbines of Salt Creek Hill with the water of St Vincent Gulf behind them; from Starfish Hill.

A technique called high dynamic range (HDR) photography was used to bring out the detail in the foreground hills - it would have been missed in a standard exposure because of the very bright light reflected from Saint Vincent Gulf.
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Looking from the public road on Salt Creek Hill toward the turbines on Starfish Hill itself.

There are 8 turbines on Starfish Hill and 15 on the lower Salt Creek Hill.
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Summer clouds drifting past one of the 1.5MW Starfish Hill turbines






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On top of Starfish Hill
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Turbines on Salt Creek Hill with the water of Saint Vincent Gulf in the background.
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An old fence line leads to a new turbine



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Starfish Hill turbine in foreground, Salt Creek Hill turbines in background.

I used the HDR (high dynamic range) technique to combine 3 exposures into one; hence the multiple blades on the foreground turbine.
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Sunset lights the clouds above the Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Gulf Saint Vincent while silhouetting some of the turbines.

Starfish Hill in the foreground, Salt Creek Hill in the background.

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Patchy sunshine on Salt Creek Hill.

Viewed from Cape Jervis.