The Eyre Pininsular

The Great Australian Bight

Not game enough to go near the edge

But we parked a night at the position the photograph was taken.












This is one of the numerous jetties on the Pininsular.



Remote, isolated but stunning.



















Another Jetty on a picture perfect day









A 19th century eating house we discovered on the route down the West Coast of the Pininsular.













This was our resting place at Tumby Bay

Another quiet night by the side of the Ocean









This was an evenning at Coffin Bay
(the Coffin name refers to the military person who sailed into the Bay many years ago)
The wine and view were spectacular








This is the view looking south west from the gun emplacements at Whyalla, built in 1939 to protect the next photgraph.

This is or was the BHP steelworks built in the early 1930's and supplied steel for the "War Effort"

The just a postion of both views is stratling and when the Queen unvailed a plaque there in the 1960's, life would have been different.

South Wales revisited, except the weather so much better.






Finally, back to nature on of the many shots we have of Pelicans at one of the Jetties.

The Itinerary from Perth
Details on previous Blogs

1. Albany
2. Esperance
3. Norseman
4. Eucla
5. Ceduna

The next stage

> Laura Bay.
> Streaky Bay.
> Coffin Bay.
> Port Lincoln.
> Tumby Bay
> Cowell
> Whyalla
> Port Augusta

Trip details

Distance travelled from Perth is 3644 kms
Number of days travelled = 37 days

Stage Comments

This was a grand tour of the Eyre Peninsula’s coastline which turned out to be a series visits to bays each of which was different and having varying degrees of “beauty”. The brochure of each seemed to use adjectives that tested ones perception of reality but they were Australian and of that there is no doubt. The colour of sea and sand plus the flies left you in no room for ambiguity, a beautiful coastline.
We started out from Ceduna after a couple of nights in the Caravan Park as recovery from “the crossing” Typical of our travelling style we left the town around 1pm and found an overnight stop at Laura Bay by 3pm, another big travelling day as you can see.
This was a unique experience for Laura Bay I would think, someone had their hair cut on the foreshore.
The next bay of note was “Coffin Bay” this was small remote fishing village and with a nice Place to eat (not a common experience on the Coastline) and importantly a great place to overnight on the “Lookout” overlooking the harbour. Great sunsets and panoramic views were clear from our bedroom window.
We streaked through Streaky Bay, which was quite nice but the weather was hot and it didn’t suit our needs and we moved on to Port Lincoln where we succumbed to a Caravan Park for washing and re victualling. We find that 4 days on the road is comfortable for water supply and washing to be held over.
Port Lincoln was a pleasant town, the largest since we left Albany, major supermarkets, restaurants and the like. Tumby Bay was the only really impressive stop on route to Whyalla and Whyalla was something else. One of our plans was to stop at Whyalla for Christmas but since we were travelling so fast we decided to find an alternative, good that we did! Whyalla looking out to sea was a very beautiful location, but rotate 180 degrees and a visual disaster awaits. One could liken it to Newport in South Wales or a poor Kwinana in WA. The steel works overawes the place and seems to have the negative impact on the people. They lacked the smiling good will that is common to most Australians, a sad place.
So we moved on to Port Augusta