Family Activities
Adventures for Everyone
The best family activities in Eyre Peninsula
Shuck oysters, jump off historic jetties, hand-feed dolphins, hunt for the Tumby Bay murals and watch the tuna toss at Tunarama. The Eyre Peninsula is a natural playground built for families.
The Eyre Peninsula is built for family adventures, with safe swimming beaches, hands-on wildlife and plenty of room for kids to roam. The sheltered gulf bays around Tumby Bay, Cowell and Smoky Bay offer shallow, calm water and grassy foreshores, while jetties along the coast are perfect for crabbing, squidding and learning to fish.
Up the wow factor with the region's wildlife encounters: wade out to shuck oysters at Coffin Bay, meet hand-raised animals at Glen Forest near Port Lincoln, or take an eco-cruise to swim with sea lions and dolphins. Kids love clambering up granite giants like Pildappa Rock and Mount Wudinna, and the silo and street art murals turn town stops into a treasure hunt.
Distances are long, so plan around plenty of beach breaks and pack supplies for remote stretches. Most foreshore reserves have playgrounds, barbecues and shade, and many attractions are free or low-cost. Summer suits swimming and water play; the milder shoulder seasons make the longer drives more comfortable with little ones.
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Murphy's Haystacks
Pink Granite From the Dawn of Time
A cluster of strange, wind-sculpted pink granite inselbergs more than 1,500 million years old, standing in a farm paddock near Streaky Bay.
Penong Windmill Museum
Home of Bruce, the biggest windmill in Australia
An open-air museum of around twenty lovingly restored windmills beside the Eyre Highway — crowned by Bruce, a 35-foot Comet that is the largest windmill in the country.
Perlubie Beach
A broad, shallow, drive-on beach north of Streaky Bay where families park on the sand and the tide goes out forever.
Pildappa Rock
A giant pink granite inselberg near Minnipa with a perfect "wave" formation, often called a friendlier rival to Wave Rock.
Port Kenny
The quiet side of Venus Bay
A tiny fishing town on the sheltered inland shore of Venus Bay, with a jetty over calm water and the sea caves and pink granite of the west coast minutes away.
Port Neill Jetty & Foreshore
A tidy gulf-side town between Tumby Bay and Arno Bay, with a historic jetty, calm swimming beach and a vintage car collection.
September Beach
A popular family camping and swimming beach in Lincoln National Park, with sheltered water and a campground just behind the dunes.
Smoky Bay
Oysters, a Long Jetty & Big Sunsets
A peaceful oyster-farming village near Ceduna with a long jetty, a popular foreshore caravan park and famous sunsets over the water.
Streaky Bay Foreshore
The Heart of the Far West Coast
The friendly waterfront of Streaky Bay — a jetty, a sandy swimming beach and a foreshore caravan park that anchor town life.
Streaky Bay Powerhouse Museum
A volunteer-run museum in Streaky Bay built around the town's original diesel powerhouse and restored engines.
The Australian Farmer
An eight-metre farmer carved from local granite
Wudinna's monumental granite sculpture — eight metres and around seventy tonnes of local stone, carved over two years by Marijan Bekic as a tribute to the region's farming pioneers.
Tumby Bay Jetty & Foreshore
A Long White Jetty & Calm Water
Tumby Bay's historic jetty and long white-sand foreshore, offering safe swimming, good fishing and views to the Sir Joseph Banks islands.
Tumby Bay Murals
A Seaside Town Turned Gallery
An internationally significant collection of large-scale murals painted across Tumby Bay as part of the Colour Tumby street-art festival.
Venus Bay Jetty
A long jetty over the sheltered inlet at Venus Bay, a prime spot for whiting and squid and for watching dolphins in the bay.
Whyalla Foreshore & Marina
Whyalla's redeveloped beachfront and marina, with calm Spencer Gulf swimming, a playground and a waterfront walk.
Whyalla Maritime Museum
Home to HMAS Whyalla, a WWII corvette dry-docked on land, telling the story of the town's shipbuilding and steel heritage.
Whyalla Wetlands & Mangrove Boardwalk
A boardwalk and trail through mangroves and constructed wetlands near Whyalla, rich in birdlife on the upper Spencer Gulf.
Yanerbie Sand Dunes
A vast field of white coastal sand dunes near Sceale Bay, popular for sandboarding, beach fishing and big ocean views.