The Eyre Peninsula.In the Eyre Peninsula region you can have a seaside holiday where you don’t have to climb over other bodies to get to the water. Yes, with more than 2,000 kilometres of coastline, you can get as much space to yourself as you want. 
The Eyre Peninsula is in South Australia and is bordered by the Spencer Gulf to the east and the Great Australian Bight to the west. The two entrance towns to the Peninsula are Port Augusta to the east and Ceduna to the west, with the Lincoln Highway running along the east coast and the Flinders Highway running along the west coast. At the point of the peninsula, where the two highways meet, is Port Lincoln, situated on Boston Bay. The inland areas of the Eyre Peninsula are home to major agricultural industries, while the coastal bays and beaches offer good swimming and surfing. When you explore this wonderful part of South Australia you'll find some lovely sheltered coves and bays that are perfect for fishing, beautiful secluded beaches and stunning cliff faces that provide the perfect vantage point for spotting the majestic hump back whales as they undertake their annual migration through the Southern Ocean.
The Eyre Peninsula is also home to national parks, ancient caves, and the Nullarbor Plain, the vast, treeless ‘desert’ that has fascinated anyone with an explorer's spirit, ever since the area was discovered. You'll also find some quite charming seaside accommodation and delicious local seafood, in fact, all the creature comforts you could possibly want. Yes, Eyre Peninsula holidays come without the maddening crowds, so head to this wonderful part of South Australia and find out what everybody else is missing out on. You can soak up the sun or do a spot of surfing on one of the peninsula’s many beaches. Pick the right spot, and chances are that you could have the beach all to yourself. 
If you're like me and you like to do a spot of fishing, try wetting a line from a coastal jetty, perhaps you’d prefer to take a rod down to a beach and cast away or maybe even take a tour on a fishing charter. Take a road trip to explore the ancient Nullarbor Plain to see caves formed more than 25 million years ago, or you can venture into the wilderness of our national parks and see an amazing variety of native wildlife and flora. While you can get as much space to yourself as you need, as I said earlier, there are also plenty of creature comforts to be found. So, while you're in the area, be sure to follow the Seafood and Aquaculture Trail, salivate over some of the freshest seafood you're ever going to taste, and wash your meal down with an award-winning local wine. There are also plenty of places to rest your bones with luxury marina apartments, hotels and motels, As you head south along the Lincoln Highway from Port Augusta you will come across Whyalla, which is the second largest city in South Australia.
There is a large steel industry in the area, and a visit to the NHP Steel Works is well worth the effort if you’d like to find out more about what goes into the making of one of our most useful materials. Whyalla also has a large port, with its history told within the Maritime Museum and there are also historic displays in the Mt. Laura Homestead. A little further to the south you’ll come to Cowell, a pleasant, if small and rather quiet little settlement whose major attractions include a local museum, a beautiful old hotel, a very eccentric 'black stump' in the main street, and an interesting jade factory on the outskirts of town centre. The coastline around Point Gibbon is delightful, with the landscape backed by large sand dunes. Other coastal resorts worth a visit include Arno Bay and Tumby Bay a little further south. On the way to Tumby Bay you can visit the vintage vehicle museum at Port Neill. From Tumby Bay you can also visit the beautiful Sir Joseph Banks Islands, home to Sea lions, gorgeous bays and wonderful reefs. 
Heading north along the Flinders Highway towards Ceduna there are more wonderful bays and beaches worth stopping at. Just west of Port Lincoln is Coffin Bay, where you can enter the gorgeous landscape in the Coffin Bay Peninsula National Park. Nearby is the Kellidie Bay Conservation Park, home to numerous species of birds. If you are want to go surfing then head for Greenly Beach or if fishing is more what you’re after head to the fishing town of Elliston or the great salmon fishing spot at Locks Well. Heading further north from Elliston you can visit Anxious Bay, Blackfellows and Salmon Point for some great photos. From Blackfellows you can see right across to Flinders Island, where you can stay at the sheep station and find out how it all works. Further along the highway towards Ceduna you will see plenty of wildlife.
The Venus Bay Conservation Park is home to an abundance of birdlife including pelicans, and you can also see the sea lions at Point Labatt from the towering cliffs above. Streaky Bay is another small town on the way to Ceduna. It was named Streaky Bay by the explorer Matthew Flinders because of the plentiful streaky seaweed along the bay. As well as offering surfing at Back Beach the Eyre Peninsula also hosts Murphey’s Haystacks, which are large granite outcrops and if you like oysters head for the oyster farms at Smoky Bay. To find a little about the local history visit the National Trust Museum and the Powerhouse Museum. Yes, if you want a holiday without the crowds, travel to the Eyre Peninsula, it's one of the best ways you can choose to unwind, relax, recharge and.............enjoy. John. To find a great list of wonderful South Australia attractions just click here. Our RSS feed will be updated periodically with all the latest travel deals and special offers. Please subscribe by clicking the button to the left (XML/RSS) to receive notice of these updates without any risk or obligation. PLEASE NOTE: If you don't know what an RSS feed is just click this link. Click here to return from The Eyre Peninsula to The Discount Travel Guide home page. |
