Eyre Peninsula Beaches
With more than 2000 kilometres of coastline, the Eyre Peninsula has plenty of beaches for you to relax on. So pack your towels and sunscreen - here's a list of our favourites for you to check out:
Point Gibbon The coastline around Point Gibbon is beautiful, with the pretty landscape backed by large sand dunes. The beaches here are also great. This scenic drive, incorporating the old shipping port of Port Gibbon, has interpretive signage throughout and starts with a viewing platform overlooking some oyster farms. Facilities at Port Gibbon, 20 kilometres south of Cowell, include a barbeque and toilets. Look out for the resident sealions as you enjoy the clean beaches, cliffs and white sandhills and reefs.
Poverty Beach Between Cowell and Arno Bay turn off the Lincoln Highway onto Boundary Road and you will arrive at Poverty Beach a good surfing beach.
Lucky Bay
A popular spot with a safe swimming beach for children. Lovely sandy beach that is great for swimming, fishing or just relaxing. This is a favourite getaway spot for locals too, with many owning holiday shacks that overlook the beach. During the Christmas holidays there is a shop open daily. A daily car and passenger ferry departs from Lucky Bay travelling to Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula. Lucky Bay is 16kms north of Cowell.
Arno Bay
A large sandy bay, ideal for swimming, windsurfing, sailing and fishing. There is a swimming platform and a pontoon at the jetty.
Tumby Bay
Walk along footprint free beaches, discover unspoilt coastline, blue waters and scenic sheltered bays that offer year round fishing, sailing and sightseeing. Jetty, beach, rock and boat fishing is a very popular pastime for locals and visitors along with swimming, diving and all aquatics.
Port Lincoln
Sitting on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula and offers fantastic coastal landscape and some good surfing beaches. Activities range from visiting and enjoying the numerous beaches located around the area, to dropping a line and catching one of the many species of fish the area has to offer. Next to the jetty on Port Lincoln's foreshore there is a swimming enclosure offering a safe environment to cool off on a hot day.
Coffin Bay
One of the most stunning estuaries in Australia and boasts many spectacular beaches including Long Beach, 7-mile Beach, Sensation Beach and Farm Beach. Huge expanses of pristine beaches that offers solitude and fantastic vistas.
Elliston and Surrounds
Sheringa Beach has clear water with a backdrop of white dunes. Sand boarding, swimming, surfing or just relaxing on the beach are some of the activities to be enjoyed. Locks Well is a famous salmon surf fishing beach and is well worth the climb down 280 steps to reach this paradise. The spectacular ocean can be viewed and photographed from the beach with plenty of sightings of seals, the odd whale and bronze whaler shark regularly surf the ocean gutters after the huge clouds of Australian Salmon. And Elliston's Waterloo Bay has many great swimming and recreational beaches including Milikin's Beach, Little Bay and Boards Beach (stretching between Elliston's foreshore and the jetty).
Doctors Beach, Streaky Bay
On Wells Street, immediately next to the Streaky Bay Foreshore Tourist Park, there are two sheltered barbeques and a large gazebo style shelter with a table and seats. Outdoor table settings with bench type seats are located in the area for those who want to enjoy the sun and be out in the open.
Ceduna
Here, find beaches ideal for surfing, swimming, water-skiing, scuba diving and snorkelling, sailboarding and boating. Fishing is one the area's biggest drawcards and King George Whiting is a delicacy in abundance.
Cactus Beach
Experienced surfers from all over Australia and overseas congregate at the iconic surf site of Cactus to test their skills on two left hand breaks and one right hander. This is where they can experience the freedom of surfing in natural unspoilt surroundings. Wintertime, with its big swells gives big waves, but surfers pick their times because of dangerous rips and stormy conditions.
Fowlers Bay
The unique location of the township adjacent to spectacular pristine sand dunes, beaches, rugged cliffs, unspoilt coastline are all within a few minutes at Fowlers Bay. The township is situated within the Fowlers Bay Conservation Park so there is ample opportunity to see wildlife on shore and offshore.
