Point Lowly Lighthouse

Point Lowly reaches out into upper Spencer Gulf on a slender spit of land, crowned by a heritage lighthouse and its restored keeper's cottages. It is a place of big skies and quiet water, where the gulf narrows and the tides run hard past the point.

This is the staging ground for one of the planet's strangest wildlife spectacles: each winter, tens of thousands of giant Australian cuttlefish gather in the shallows nearby to breed, putting on a shimmering display of colour for snorkellers and divers. Outside the season, the point is prized for shore fishing, beach camping and sunsets over the gulf.

The drive out from Whyalla is sealed and easy. Bring a wetsuit for the cuttlefish, a rod for the snapper, or simply a chair for the view, and you will see why locals love this windswept finger of coast.