Located 190 km west of Adelaide via the Princes Highway and 172 km south of Port Pirie, Port Victoria is a tiny settlement, attractively located on the sea. The main street has rows of Norfolk pines running all the way down to the sea. There's a plough at the top of the main street and the town calls itself 'the last of the windjammer ports'Port Victoria was first surveyed in 1839. It was named after the schooner Victoria which took the surveyor James H. Hughes along the coast. In 1840 he reported that he had discovered fresh water 'only seven feet below the surface one-and-a-half miles from the head of the inner bay' and predicted that Port Victoria would become a large and successful town.In fact the town became one of the key 'windjammer ports' in the 19th century. The jetty was constructed and the wheat from the hinterland was brought to the town where it was loaded on the windjammers which ran from Gulf St Vincent across to South America then up the Atlantic to Europe.The last windjammer sailed out of Port Victoria in 1949 and since then the town has become a sleepy, pleasant holiday resort far removed from the hurly burly of the coastline's more popular seaside destinations.The town still has the feel of an old sailors port. The museum is in the old shed at the end of the jetty and the Port Victoria pub still has a suggestion of being a wild place in years gone by.