Port Lincoln and Coffin Bay

Port Lincoln is "Australia's Seafood Capital" and it's known for its tuna fishing industry.  It's a very picturesque town with plenty of activities from quiet beach walks to adrenalin rushing cage swims with sharks and tuna.  You could say there's something for everyone.  We're booked in here for a week so we have time to explore the countryside.  The town is a busy fishing town with a huge grain terminal dominating the landscape.

About 40km west is the Coffin Bay National Park.  Coffin Bay is famous for it's oysters.  

We spent the afternoon driving around the National Park taking photos of the stunning coastal scenery.  We also checked out the campsite which we hope to come back to in future.

It was "dad's day out" with the emu chicks - they didn't have any road sense so we had to keep our eyes open for them.  The mum's parental responsibilities end when she lays the eggs.  Eggs are incubated and chicks are raised by their dad.

Elliston for wonderful cliff top scenery

From Streaky Bay, we've taken a few days to travel the 300km to Port Lincoln at the bottom of the Eyre Peninsula.  A couple of days at Elliston gave us time to explore the area and check out the scenery on the coastal drives.  Several of the buildings in Elliston have been painted with historic murals and there is a whale tail sculpture in the town centre.  This town has the added advantage of only being a few kms south of the wood fired baker at Colton.

The drives are well marked and took us along the cliff tops.  Our first drive to Little Bay had us jumping in and out of the car as we stopped at the lookouts to drink in the scenery and take photos.  We saw many of the calcified weevil cocoons that are common to the area.  These are empty pupal cases of the leptopius duponti weevil and are estimated to be about 100,000 years old.

The second drive, along the Scenic Ocean Drive to the north, was much longer - with scenery equally as good.  There was the added bonus of sculptures at many of the lookouts.  The area around boat ramp at Anxious Bay is a popular fishing spot.

Our third drive was about 20km south to Locks Well, another popular fishing spot for those who want to walk down the many stairs to the beach.  If you don't want to tackle the stairs, just hang out at the  picnic table at the lookout and watch the sea.  There are signs about the dangerous undertows and we could see the rips which would quickly take a swimmer out to sea.