The Eyre Peninsula / Streaky Bay

We had a relaxing start to the morning, enjoying the serenity and isolation of our free camp. We ate the last of our fruit and checked our fridge was clear of fresh vegetables, ready for our biosecurity border check 2km west of Ceduna. We took a quick detour to check out Smoky Bay (not much there) and 200km later we arrived at Streaky Bay. We parked in town, strolled down to the jetty, did a quick grocery shop before the local IGA closed at 1pm (Sunday) and headed to lunch at the Drift Café. The Eyre Peninsula is known as the Seafood Frontier of Australia, so we were keen to indulge. We ordered the local specialty of King George whiting and were not disappointed. It was delicious! We then checked into Island Caravan Park, 7km out of town, being allocated a great site backing straight onto the bay. After a quick set up we were off for a stroll along the foreshore and then back to the BT for dinner.

Day Two in Streaky Bay was all about exploring the rugged coastline. The area offers 3 amazing coastline scenic drives, and as we only had one day in the area, we were keen to explore all three. We started with the Westall Way Loop which took us past Tractor Beach, the magnificent Highcliffs and then down a 110 step stairwell to the Granites. Here we walked among beautiful, orange-coloured boulders which sat in lovely, crystal, green waters. We also viewed Smooth Pool and drove past the white sand dunes behind Yanerbie Beach. We then continued south, down to Point Labatt to observe Australia’s only mainland sea lion colony. These sea lions are Australia’s most endangered marine mammals, so we felt very blessed to be able to perch above the cliff and watch the adults sun bake in the heat while the little pups played in the waves and pools close to the shore. There were also many sea birds congregated on the rocks amongst the sea lions.

Back via the town we visited the Streaky Surf shop and purchased a sweat top each before stopping via the Streaky Bay Marine Products to pick up some King George whiting and Evans oysters for dinner – yum!

We finished the day touring the Cape Bauer Loop, stopping to walk down to Hally’s Beach and along the 360m boardwalk to Whistling Rocks and the Blowholes. The swell was big and the wind blowing, so we heard the rock pipes in action and copped a far bit of sea spray!