 About the area: With a landscape that varies from harsh semi-desert in the north to pretty seaside towns on the rugged west coast and southern parts, Eyre Peninsula offers visitors the opportunity to savour the Australian outback without leaving good paved roads, or having to travel too far away from the comforts of civilisation.
The main attractions for visitors to the peninsula are not just the beaches, fishing and watersports of the southern reaches of the peninsula that have turned that area into a popular recreational destination for South Australians, but also the variety of scenic coastal vistas of the whole peninsula which are little known and appreciated outside of South Australia.
The peninsula boasts some 1600 km of spectacular coastline, much of it on the Great Australian Bight and open to the Southern Ocean. The scenery here changes dramatically as one travels south, from quiet beaches in the north, to stark, wind and wave-eroded red cliffs near Streaky Bay to the dramatic crevasses of the peninsula's tip where the Southern Ocean pounds the headlands. Lincoln Highway, which follows the shoreline of the peninsula, is one of Australia's quieter highways as it is not a through road to anywhere, therefore travellers often have the road - and the scenery - all to themselves. If you are seeking to escape the crowds associated with Australia's more popular and well known tourist destinations, and to drive a road less-travelled, this is the place for you.
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Natural Attractions
- Whyalla: Lake Gilles Conservation Park (72 km west); Munyaroo Conservation Park (40 km south); Whyalla Fauna and Reptile Park; Whyalla Conservation Park (10 km north)
- Iron Knob: Middleback Ranges (Iron Princess, Iron Monarch and Iron Knob mines); Coralbingie Rocks (65 km west)
- Kimba: Gawler Ranges National Park (470 m above sea level); Lake Gilles Conservation Park (20 km north east); Pinkawillinie Conservation Park (45 km west); Hambridge Conservation Park (Darke Peak, 448 metres); Buckleboo Granites rock outcrop; Lake Acraman - Scrubby Peak heritage area; Carappee Hill Conservation Park
- Cowell: Franklin Harbour Conservation Park; Middlecamp Hills Conservation Park; Sheoak Hill Conservation Park; Point Price Sandhills (20 km south); Rudall Conservation Park (60 km west)
- Cleve: Hincks Conservation Park; Yeldulknie Conservation Park; Rudall Conservation Park; Cleve Fauna Park
- Tumby Bay: Tumby Island Conservation Park; Sir Joseph Banks Islands (Reevesby Island; Roxby Island; Spilsby Island); Sir Joseph Banks Group Conservation Park; Louth Bay; Gambier Islands Conservation Park; Neptune Islands Conservation Park
- Port Lincoln: Lincoln National Park; Whalers Way (32 km south); Sleaford Bay; Sleaford Mere Conservation Park; Wanilla Conservation Park; Whidbey Islands Conservation Park; Sir Joseph Banks Group Conservation Park (38 km north-east)
- Coffin Bay: Coffin Bay National Park; Mount Dutton Bay Conservation Park; Rocky Island (North) Conservation Park (20 km north of Point Sir Isaac); Avoid Bay Islands Conservation Park; Coffin Bay Peninsula; Kellidie Bay Conservation Park
- Elliston: Talia Limestone Caves; Waldergrave Islands Conservation Park; Investigator Group Conservation Park (Flinders, Ward and Pearson Islands); Cap Island Conservation Park (15 km south-west); Bascombe Well Conservation Park; Lake Newland Conservation Park; Mount Wedge; Wellington and Wellesley Points contains unusual clog-shaped fossilised cocoons of the weevil Leptopius duponti, which are reputed to be over 100 000 years old.
- Wudinna: Gawler Ranges; Samphire Flats (salt lakes); Pinkawillinie Conservation Park; columnar jointing of Yardea Dacite (65 km north-east of Minnipa); Granite rocks - Polda Rocks (7 km), Pygery Rocks (8 km), Little Mount Wudinna (9 km), Turtle Rock (12 km), Mount Wudinna (12 km), Peella Rock (30 km), Pildappa Rock, Corrobinnie Hill (32 km)
- Streaky Bay: Baird Bay Islands Conservation Park (25 km south-east); Calpatannas Waterhole Conservation Park (28 km south-east); Eba Island Conservation Park (14 km north); Point Labatt Conservation Park (55 km south - has Australia's only permanent mainland colony of sea-lions); Murphy's Haystacks (naturally sculptured pink granite rocks); Olive Island Conservation Park (24 km north-west); Pigface Island Conservation Park (10 km north); Venus Bay Conservation Park; Talia limestone caves
- Smoky Bay: Eyre Island
- Ceduna: Nuyts Archipelago Conservation Park (40 km south); Isles of St Francis Conservation Park (45 km south-west); Laura Bay Conservation Park (18 km south-east); Denial Bay; Murat Bay; Yumbarra Conservation Park (32 km north-west); Yellabinna Regional Reserve; Pureba Conservation Park; Wittlebee National Park (20 km south-east)
- Yalata: Yellabinna Regional Reserve; Nullarbor Regional Reserve; Fowlers Bay; Cape Adieu; Great Australian Bight Marine Park; Sinclair Island Conservation Park; Head of the Bight whale lookout; Nullarbor National Park; Bunda Cliffs
- Lock: Hambridge Conservation Park; Hinck's Conservation Park
Historic Places
- Whyalla: Hummock Hill fortifications; Mt. Laura Homestead Museum; Point Lowly Lighthouse (1883); Mt. Laura Homestead; Lincoln Park Historic Reserve
- Iron Knob: Iron Knob tourist centre and Mining Museum; Corunna Station
- Kimba: Kimba & Gawler Ranges Historical Museum; One Teacher School (one of 26 portable wooden schools built in the Kimba area between 1918 and 1967)
- Cowell: National Trust Historical Museum (Old Post Office, 1888); Franklin Harbour Hotel (1881, 1907); ruins of Wangaraleednie Station, Middlecamp Shearing Shed and Crofter's Cottage
- Cleve: National Trust Museum (old Council Chambers)
- Tumby Bay: CL Alexander Memorial Museum; Koppio Smithy Museum (Koppio); Todd Reservoir Museum
- Port Lincoln: Lincoln National Park (Flinders Monument; Stamford Hill); Memory Cove Historic Reserve including Flinders Tablet (28 km south-east); St Thomas' Anglican Church (1849-50); Court House (1862); Mill Cottage, now the National Trust Museum (1866); Boston Island slab cottage (1840); Port Lincoln Court House (1862); Settlers' Cottage Museum; Axel Stenross Maritime Museum; Railway Museum (1926); 'Green Patch' (1855); Flinders Monument, Stamford Hill (1844)
- Sleaford Bay: whaling station relics
- Coffin Bay: Mt. Dutton Bay Woolshed (1875) and Jetty; Old Hotel, Wangary (1871); historic ruins of the old Post Office, Coach House and Bakery.
- Streaky Bay: Old School House Museum; Montgomery Terrace Hospital Cottage (1864); Cooeyana Well Historic Reserve Aboriginal waterhole (3 km south-east)
- Ceduna: McKenzie ruins (Denial Bay, 13 km west); Ceduna Museum
- Penong: Lake MacDonnell (gypsum mining)
- Yalata: Yalata Homestead ruins (10 km from Fowlers Bay)
- Lock: Lock Heritage Museum
Wine Regions
- Eyre Peninsula: Port Lincoln - Boston Bay and Dellacolline Estate Wineries
Misc. Attractions
- Whyalla: Whyalla Maritime Museum (HMAS Whyalla; 650 tonne corvette, the first ship completed at the shipyard); Poverty Bay Historic Reserve containing Aboriginal stone arrangements (125 km south-west); Lincoln Park Historic Reserve containing two natural rock overhangs with Aboriginal art
- Cowell: Cowell Jade Factory
- Port Lincoln: Sea horse Farm; Roseview Emu Farm and Rose Gardens (10 km north west); Mikkira Station
- Coffin Bay: Gallipoli Beach, used to depict the famous shoreline where the ANZACs came ashore in the movie, 'Gallipoli' (10 km from Wangary)
- Ceduna: former OTC station (37 km north); Kongwirra Repeater Station (11 km east)
- Yalata: Koonaldra Cave (76 metres below the surface of the Nullarbor Plain, the cave, which features a chain of underground lakes, contains deposits from Aboriginal occupation and art (7 km north of Koonalda Station - restricted access)
Journeys
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