Eyre Peninsula's Granite Giants & Rock Wonders
The monoliths, balancing boulders and weird rock formations of the interior and coast.
Long before the farms and the fishing towns, there was the rock. The Eyre Peninsula is built on some of the oldest granite in the country, weathered over more than a thousand million years into waves, domes, balancing boulders and wind-sculpted shapes. From inland monoliths to coastal stacks, these are the rock wonders worth the detour.
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Image credits
- Pildappa Rock View 7-1.jpg by Thilver , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons