Murphy's Haystacks

Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast


A few kilometres down the Point Labatt road are the globular Murphy's Haystacks, an improbable congregation of 'inselbergs' − colourful, weather-sculpted granite outcrops that are an estimated 1500 million years old.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast attractions

1. Streaky Bay Museum

21.92 MILES

The endearing little Streaky Bay Museum occupies a 1901 school house, and features a fully furnished pug-and-pine hut, birds eggs and shell collections,…

2. Streaky Bay Roadhouse

22.07 MILES

In 1990, a huge 5m-long, 1.5-tonne White Pointer shark was reeled in off Streaky Bay: check out the unnervingly large life-size replica in the little room…