Streaky Bay
Eyre Peninsula Circuit Drive: First time visitors are recommended to explore Eyre Peninsula by taking a peninsula circuit roadtrip, commencing at Port Augusta, heading west to Ceduna, south-east along the east coast of the peninsula to Port Lincoln, then north-est back to Port Augusta. This drive takes in all the coastal and inland scenery, attractions and towns featured on this web page as Key Attractions on the Eyre Peninsula. You'll need a minimum of a day for each leg (3 days total), however to do the region justice, we recommend a week. Accommodation and facilities are plentiful.
Lincoln National Park: this national park is home to some of the most stunning coastal scenery in the country. Though this coastline looks nothing like say, Victoria's Shipwreck Coast, it is equally as breaktaking, and well worth the long drive to this fairly isolated corner of the continent.
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Whalers Way: Located on a promontory 32km to the south west of the town of Port Lincoln, Whaler's Way is a series of unsealed tracks which pass through private property along its 14km length, giving access to one of the most dramatic sections of coastline on the Australian mainland. The coast is inundated with a series of natural crevasses, giant fissures in the rocky coastline which have created deep bays and chasms into which the sea surges back and forth. These crevasses and headlands are of varying depths, lengths and widths.
Westall Way: short coastal drive, Westall Way is one of the Eyre Peninsula's best kept secrets, a showcase for an amazing variety of landforms and seascapes. Dotted along Westall Way are rugged limestone cliffs, granite boulders covered in golden lichen, secluded granite pools and quite striking seascapes with foaming white breakers. In stark contrast are the huge white Yanerbie sand dunes. At Point Labatt, visitors are treated to a bird's eye view of Australia's only mainland sea-lion colony.
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Murphys Haystacks: Murphys Haystacks is an unusual rock formation that consists of two separate though clearly related groups of large granite pillars and boulders standing near the crest of a broad domical hill,just to the west of the Streaky Bay. Made up of pink Hiltaba granite, the "haystacks" have stood on top of the earth in their present form for nearly 34,000 years. The haystacks themselves stand like silent sentinels, guardians of the view that stretches for miles from atop the hill.
Venus Bay: a small tourist and fishing town, its population numbers in the twenties during most of the year, but greatly increases during the summer holidays. The town also serves as an offloading point for professional fishermen, who fish the remote Archipelagos in the Southern Ocean.
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