Sunrise at Coffin Bay, turning an unremarkable shallow bay into a fleeting work of art.

Blackfellas Surf Break, Elliston, Eyre Peninsula

Elliston was a quiet, pretty village. Steep sandstone cliffs designed its Northern border and along this, a sculpture trail had been created. At the foot of the cliffs, the surf breaks took intimidation to an art form as well. It took Tom 2 days to screw up the courage to paddle out at Blackfellas, scene of the frightful death in 2000 of young local surfer Jevan Wright from a Great White attack. Part of the problem was finding your way down the treacherous...

Streaky Bay was a wonderful surprise, rather like thinking you'd eaten the last Tim Tam in the pack and then reaching into the tin and fetching out one more delicious morsel. As usual, we left our run a bit late to our destination and arrived in Streaky at tea time. We had decided to have fish and chips for tea and found a restuarant that was so good, it made fish and chips look like your dogs dinner. Our plans for a speedy takeaway quickly morphed into a full...

West of Adelaide, across the Spencer Gulf, sits the Eyre Peninsula. It's very dry, very empty and somewhat of a last bastion of an almost vanished Australia. There are no fast food outlets here, all the servos are unique, old school style still refilling gas bottles rather than swapping them and selling local produce such as oysters and beef. The traffic is sparse and the cars, when you see them, are in various stages of delapidation as South Oz, like WA, allo...