Stories
Longer reads, travel guides and field notes from the Eyre Peninsula.
The Boatbuilder of Boston Bay
When the great grain ships stopped coming, one Finnish carpenter stayed behind - and spent fifty years building the boats that built Port Lincoln.
June 2026 · 6 min read
Whyalla Beyond the Steel
Whyalla wears its steelworks proudly - but spend a day here and a stranger, saltier city emerges: wartime hills, foreshore gardens and a harbour full of unexpected life.
June 2026 · 6 min read
Salt and Speed: A Lake Gairdner Pilgrimage
North of the Gawler Ranges lies a salt lake 160 kilometres long - a blinding white stage that hosts land-speed racers one week a year and perfect silence the rest.
June 2026 · 6 min read
The Green Hills Behind Tumby Bay
Behind Tumby Bay's famous blue water lies a band of rolling green hill country hiding a National Trust village, a perfect cove and the best farm views on the peninsula.
June 2026 · 6 min read
Fowlers Bay: The Town the Sand Almost Took
Fowlers Bay has hosted Flinders, Eyre and generations of whalers. Now its oldest adversary - a vast white dune - looms over the town it keeps trying to bury.
June 2026 · 7 min read
The Windmills of Penong
Penong has always lived or died by its windmills. Now the town has gathered twenty of them - including the biggest in Australia - into one gloriously creaky museum.
June 2026 · 6 min read
The Lookouts of the Far West Coast
Between Elliston and Venus Bay, a chain of clifftop lookouts reveals the raw artistry of the Southern Ocean at work on the limestone coast.
June 2026 · 4 min read
The Oyster Coast
From Coffin Bay to Smoky Bay, the Eyre Peninsula's sheltered, nutrient-rich waters have made it one of the great oyster-growing coasts on earth.
June 2026 · 5 min read
Climbing the Granite Monoliths
The Eyre Peninsula's interior hides some of Australia's largest granite monoliths - wave-shaped, billion-year-old rocks you can climb at sunrise.
June 2026 · 5 min read
Whyalla's Hidden Mangroves
On the edge of Australia's steel city, a boardwalk winds through some of the most southerly mangroves on earth - a fragile nursery beside heavy industry.
June 2026 · 4 min read
The Sea Lions of Point Labatt
On a remote stretch of cliff near Streaky Bay, you can look down on the only permanent colony of Australian sea lions on the mainland.
June 2026 · 5 min read
The Jade of Cowell
Beneath the hills behind Cowell lies one of the largest known deposits of nephrite jade on earth - a green secret in an unassuming gulf town.
June 2026 · 5 min read