Must-see attractions in Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast

  • Top Choice
    Beer Garden Brewing

    Right next door to Port Lincoln's backpacker hostel (savvy positioning), Beer Garden Brewing brings the craft-beer revolution to the Eyre Peninsula…

  • Head of Bight

    The viewing platforms and boardwalks at Head of Bight overlook a major southern right whale breeding ground. Whales migrate here from Antarctica, and you…

  • Maralinga Atomic Bomb Test Site

    If you've got a 4WD, make your way to Maralinga, 400km northwest of Ceduna – a 9½-hour approach. It was here at Ground Zero that the British detonated…

  • Lincoln National Park

    Sea-salty Lincoln National Park is 13km south of Port Lincoln. You'll find roaming emus, roos and brush-tailed bettongs, safe swimming coves, vast dunes…

  • Coffin Bay National Park

    Along the ocean side of Coffin Bay is wild, coastal Coffin Bay National Park, overrun with roos, emus and fat goannas. Access for conventional vehicles is…

  • Tumby Bay Mural

    One of several giant murals to appear on South Australian wheat silos in recent years, this glorious spangle of colour is the work of Argentinian artist…

  • Thevenard

    For a dose of hard-luck, weather-beaten atmosphere, take a drive out to Thevenard, Ceduna's photogenic port suburb on the peninsula south of town. Boarded…

  • Lake Gairdner National Park

    Backed by the Gawler Ranges and surrounded by red sand hills, this remote salt lake 200km west of Port Augusta is a stunner, with over 200 islands and a…

  • Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden

    Just north of town, the excellent (and free!) botanic garden has 250 hectares of sandhills, clay flats and desert fauna and flora (ever seen a Sturt's…

  • Winters Hill Lookout

    For a show-stopping view over Port Lincoln and Boston Bay extending to the tuna farms and Lincoln National Park beyond, take the drive up to the top of…

  • Axel Stenross Maritime Museum

    Chart Port Lincoln's history of boat-building, sailing and whaling in this tin-shed museum on the shores of Boston Bay, just north of town (look for the…

  • Murphy's Haystacks

    A few kilometres down the Point Labatt road are the globular Murphy's Haystacks, an improbable congregation of 'inselbergs' − colourful, weather-sculpted…

  • Streaky Bay Roadhouse

    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…

  • Sundrop Farms

    Hey, what's that bizarre glowing tower just off the highway 10km south of Port Augusta? It's part of a giant greenhouse tomato-growing facility: hundreds…

  • Tumby Bay National Trust Museum

    Inside a prefab 1950s school building, fronted by a rather scrawny tin-man fisherman, Tumby Bay's little history museum is chock-full of interesting odds…

  • Whyalla Maritime Museum

    Next to the visitor centre, the Whyalla Maritime Museum includes the HMAS Whyalla, allegedly the largest landlocked ship in Australia (who keeps track of…

  • Streaky Bay Museum

    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,…

  • Boston Bay Wines

    Seems like everywhere you go in SA these days there's a winery cellar door (well, except the desert). Port Lincoln is no exception. On the northern…