Best Lookouts & Geological Wonders
Sea caves, giant granite and clifftop views
The Eyre Peninsula is a landscape of grand gestures: sea caves gouged into limestone cliffs, giant granite domes marooned in wheat fields, and cliff-top lookouts that take in whales, surf and big empty skies. These are the places to stop the car, climb a little, and let the scale of the place sink in.
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EllistonWoolshed Cave
A vast sea cave carved into the Talia cliffs, framing the surf like a stone amphitheatre.
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Elliston
The Tub at Talia
A near-perfect circular sinkhole where the ocean churns far below through a rock window.
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WudinnaPildappa Rock
A giant pink granite dome with a perfect wave formation, a friendlier rival to Wave Rock.
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Wudinna
Mount Wudinna
One of the largest granite monoliths in Australia, rising straight from the wheat plains.
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Streaky BayHally Beach & Cape Bauer Loop
The Cape Bauer loop's blowholes and folded cliffs west of Streaky Bay.
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CedunaHead of Bight Whale Watching
Watch southern right whales below the towering Bunda Cliffs at the edge of the Nullarbor.
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Streaky BayMurphy's Haystacks
Surreal wind-sculpted granite inselbergs glowing pink in the early light.
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Venus BayVenus Bay Foreshore & Lookouts
Clifftop lookouts over a sheltered bay teeming with dolphins and seabirds.
Many of these sites have unfenced edges and powerful surf below. Mind your footing, keep back from cliff edges, and go in good light.
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Image credits
- Murphy's Haystacks (14708721613).jpg by Chris Fithall , CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons