The Best Jetties on the Eyre Peninsula
Where to drop a line, take a dip, or just watch the sun go down.
Few things say Eyre Peninsula quite like a jetty. Built to ship out grain and produce in the days before sealed roads, these long timber walkways are now the social and recreational heart of the coast - places to fish, swim off the end, watch dolphins, and catch the sunset. Here are the ones worth planning around.
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Tumby BayTumby Bay Jetty & Foreshore
A long jetty over impossibly blue water, framed by Norfolk pines.
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Streaky BayStreaky Bay Foreshore
A classic town jetty for jumping, fishing and dolphin-spotting.
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Tumby BayPort Neill Jetty & Foreshore
A pretty foreshore jetty on the eastern gulf at Port Neill.
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Image credits
- Tumby Bay Jetty.jpg by AlphaLemur , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons