Whyalla is a strange town with a multiple personality disorder - it cannot quite make up its mind what it wants to be. It started off life being big in ship building and steel work, and still has a large industrial hub and a port full of very serious looking ships. More recently it has tried to appeal to the tourists by building up its foreshore precinct, and to trade by installing a large shopping mall - each at different ends of the town. On our first trip tw...

It was a good thing the heat had broken by the time we got to Cowell because we discovered it does not have a beach. The bay is lined by mangroves without a grain of sand in sight. It is situated on a large bay with a very small opening, so again an ideal place for oyster farming. We went to the oyster sheds and sampled their wares - very nice. As we were shucking our oysters in the camp kitchen we met another couple who were cooking up a big batch of blue swimm...

For our three days in Tumby Bay the wind was raging consistently, but on our last morning we woke to the sound of waves breaking on the shore. We hadn't heard this before due to the blaring of the wind. This morning broke still and warm and sunny. We moved on to Port Neil, a small town further up the coast. The best thing I can say for it is it had a nice beach, and that was what we needed as the day was turning into a scorcher. The caravan park was very basic, ...

We had no specific plans for Christmas. We had considered staying at Port Lincoln as it was a big town and may have some Christmas activities or events. However the lady in the Tourist Info assured us there was nothing happening there and everything would be shut. The only vaguely Christmas related activity was a boat cruise around the marina to look at the Christmas lights in people's homes - a bit like The Boulevarde in Ivanhoe, but it can only be viewed from ...

At the bottom tip of the Eyre Peninsula, on the eastern side, is Port Lincoln. This is the home of Australia's largest fishing fleet, and the source of most of the tuna caught here, as well as many other types of seafood. Hence it has the largest number of millionaires per capita of any town in Australia. And although Port Lincoln itself is quite beautiful, when these millionaires want to go away for the weekend they usually go to Coffin Bay. Coffin Bay is also ...