A small coastal village located on the West Coast of the Eyre Peninsula. Previously used as a port, the town is now a residential settlement and popular tourist destination known for its recreational fishing, with a boat ramp and jetty located in the town.

Where is it?: Eyre Peninsula. Smoky Bay, which boasts a permanent population of about 100 people, is located about 48 km south east of Ceduna, and 69 km north west of Streaky Bay.

The local oyster industry has been the source of tourist attractions also, with guided tours now established. Recreational fishing is the largest draw to the town, with the jetty and boat ramp heavily used in the summer holidays.

Other water based sports such as swimming and snorkelling are popular, with a large shark proof cage constructed on the side of the jetty.

Cape Bauer

Cape Bauer Drive: The scenery along this section of the Great Australian Bight is rugged and spectacular and this drive gives an opportunity to see it at close range. Stop along the way for some amazing photo opportunities. A visit to Whistling Rocks, the Blowholes and Hally���s Beach is worth it, if only to see the workmanship on the boardwalks and viewing platforms. At Whistling Rocks wave action forces air through fissures in the cliff creating an eerie sound, like a whale breathing.

Hallys is a strip of pristine beach where clean swells roll in unsurfed. Thatched shelters bring escape from the summer heat on Perlubie Beach. The Blowholes boast a 360m boardwalk and viewing platforms with wheelchair access to the fore dune. Like many stretches of the Eyre Peninsula coastline, this is a significant breeding habitat for raptors such as the southern osprey, white-bellied sea eagle and peregrine falcon.

Hallys Beach

Haslam: a small coastal village with a jetty, a shelter with electric barbecues, and a bitumen beach ramp for launching boats. The campground near the beach has toilets and shady camping sites.

Brief history: Smoky Bay's coastline was first sighted and mapped by Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802, who named it 'Smoky Bay' after the amount of smoke from fires lit by the area's Aboriginal people. Whalers were the first Europeans to inhabit the coastline near the current site of the town, just north of Pt. Collinson. Recently, dune erosion has uncovered parts of the ruins of their camps, with pieces of whale bone and three one-hundred gallon cooking pots were recovered.

In the early 1900s the area was opened up, with the first building a tin hut erected in 1905. The town of Smoky Bay was surveyed in 1913 under the name of 'Wallanippie. The growing of Oysters was established in the bay in 1988, providing a new economic facet for the town, and adding to the town's promise as a tourist destination.