The Eyre Peninsula

7th to 20th March
We’re now heading along the coast line for the next few weeks, first stop Whyalla. Its still a working port shipping out Iron Ore, with mining a huge employer in the area.

HMAS WHyalla

Up until the mid 1970’s there was a thriving ship building industry in Whyalla. HMAS Whyalla was the first mine sweeper build for the Navy for WW2, now back on display in an impressive maritime museum.
We’ve plenty of power with 2 solar panels to run our fridges and LED lights, but every 10 days or so we head to a caravan park to do the washing and take advantage of a long hot shower.


The beaches along the peninsula are white sand, blue seas and clear water. Despite it being March the water temp is around 19C, and mostly we have the beaches to ourselves. We spent 5 days Camping and hiking in Lincoln National park, before heading into Port Lincoln township for the cage diving with sharks.... luckily we both came back from that day.

September beach

Our first stay in Lincoln National park we camped at September Beach, then after a weekend in town we camped at Surfleet cove.
We did several 4 to 10km bush walks over the forntinght, a great way to see the bird life, wrens, lincoln ring necked parrots and silver eyes, ..... and scenery though it’s mainly heath and mallie country.

This part of the coastline is know as the seafood frontier, we’ve seen plenty of fish cage farming, oyster leases, eaten the king George whiting, coffin bay oysters and crabs.

Fresh caught and cooked crab.  

Sunset over the bay

Next stop Coffin Bay for some oysters straight off the leases..