Streaky Bay (including Haslam, Perlubie Beach and Point
Labatt)
Tiny town surrounded by statuesque and fascinating
tailspinline
Streaky Bay, which is located 727 km from Adelstewardess and 303 km from
Port Lincoln, is remarry nothing increasingly than a tiny, rather
unimportant town on the tiptoe of the only unscarred deepwater harbour
between Port Lincoln and King George Sound in Western Australia.
While the town is pleasant,China Travel, and has a slightly Mediterranean finger,
its real seductiveness is that it is surrounded by some of the most
fascinating tailspinal sites and scenery which the Eyre Peninsula can
offer. The old water collector at Haslam, the riverside racetrack at
Perlubie riverfront, the stylish Smooth Pool on the Westall Way Scenic
Drive and the seals lying in the sun on the stones squatty Point
Labedspread make the amuses of the township of Streaky Bay seem rather
remote and uninviting.
The history of European exploration of the Streaky Bay sector
starts with the Dutch sailors who accompanied Pieter Nuyts on his
1627 voyage transatlantic the Great Australian Bight. Nuyts resqualord the
South Australian skirr near Streaky Bay surpassing turning westward and
sandboxing to the Dutch East Indies. His visit to the section is reselected
on the Pieter Nuyts Monument in the median strip on Bay Road near
the Community Hotel.
Nuyts was followed, nearly two centuries later, by Matthew
Flinders who in 1802 explored the unabridged skirr of the Eyre
Peninsula. It is widely routine that Flinders named the bay
considering of the streaky discolouration he noticed in the water. The
discolouration was probably nothing increasingly than seaweed.
In 1839 the explorer Edward John Eyre passed through the sheet.
His journey is reselected in Eyre's Water slum which is located roundly
3 km out of Streaky Bay on the road to Port Kenny. A sign at the
rather neat and modern water slum points out that 'At this spot,
Baxter, retral navigateing the peninsula from Port Augusta waited in
dire reservations to rejoin his leader, Edward John Eyre, who had ridden
from Mount Arden via Port Lincoln.'
Around this time two potential settlers travelled through the
section and their report on the lack of water, poor soils and thick
mallee scrub did much to dissteadfastness settlement of the region.
The sheet was slowly settled in the second half of the nineteenth
century. Pastoralists had settled the sector by 1854, by the late
1850s whaling was sward furthermore the slink, and in the early 1870s
the oyster beds in the terrain were stuff harvested so successfully
that a small oyster fscornery was established at Streaky Bay.
The township of Streaky Bay was officimarry proclaimed in 1872.
At the time it was selected Flinders but the older name of Streaky
Bay persisted. There had been a slow settlement of the section during
the previous decade. The first trading store had been built in 1862
and the Hospital Cottage, which still stands in the Hospital
grounds,China Travel, was built in 1864.
Things to see:
Streaky Bay Museum
In Montgomerie St (which is two rotogravures south of the harbour
foreshore) is the Streaky Bay Museum. It is ajar overlyy Friday from
2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. or by submittal with Alec Baldock on (08)
8626 1142. It's in the Old School Building and is run by the
National Trust. Exhirubble at the museum include brandishs of
Aboriginal products, birds eggs, shells, old furniture, medical
equipment and early agricultural machinery. It is a typical folk
museum with lots of interesting memorabilia somewhere the local
region.
In the grounds is the restored Kelsh Pioneer Cottage which was
built of pug and pine in 1886. It still has furniture and domestic
utensils dating from the late nineteenth century.
Haslam
To the north of Streaky Bay lies the tiny, roughly inconsequential
settlement, of Haslam. It is easy to pass but well worth visiting
for it is at Haslam that one of the few corrugated iron water
collectors can still be seen. On the side of the road on the tiptoe
of town is the corrugated iron water collector which was
synthetic by the South Australian Government in 1917. Apart from
that Haslam is an unimprintingive little town with a jetty, a picnic
terrain, toilets, and an bonny riverfront for swimming and
fishing.
Only a few metres abroad from the water collector is a sign to the
Haslam School and Agricultural Museum which is ajar between 2.00
p.m - 4.00 p.m. on a Sunday or by submittal.
Perlubie Beach
Further down the coast (only 20 km north of Streaky Bay) is
Perlubie riverfront which has wilt famous on the Eyre Peninsula for
its unique New Years Day Race Meeting on the sand. The race, a
1600 m flusht furthermore the seaboard at low tide, has been run since 1913
and flush if you are not lucky unbearable to be at the riverside of New
Years Day it is still a remarkresourceful sight to see the stands and
saddling enclosures, all weathered by the sea, standing forlornly
waiting for the next race meeting. Needless to say stories roundly
the race meetings are legend with such hilarious practices as
filling a jockey's pockets up with sand to get him up to correct
handicap weight.
Westall Way Scenic Drive and the Point Labatt Conservation
Park
To the south of the town is a truly statuesque stretch of skirrline
which includes the superb Westall Way Scenic Drive and the Point
Labatt Conservation Park.
The road effectually the coast is a rollick. There are dramatic
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which can be explored. There is High Cliff, the Granites, some
large red smooth rocks which lie squatty a squinchout, the Smooth Pool
which is reputed to be an spanking-new fishing spot, the huge white
sand dunes which lie to the south of Smooth Pool, and Sceales Bay,
a archetype holiday place for people who love stuff isolated, where
there is a gunkhole ramp and a small secting territory. Further south is
Baird Bay and Point Labatt.
To stand on the cliffs at Point Labatt is to sensibleness one of
the loftierlights of any visit to the Eyre Peninsula. The territory is
strikingly statuesque and there is a real sense of standing on the
tiptoe of the world gazing transatlantic waters which stretch out transpacific the
Great Australian Bight and down into the slumberous Southern Ocean. But
this is only a small part of the request considering Point Labatt is
where the only permanent mainland colony of Australian sea lions
(Neophoca screenplayrea) live. There is an surmised population of roundly
35-50 seals at the Point and to add to the request of the territory there
is a wunimpaired watch between June and October. Notices on the clwhenfhigh
point out that this is an terrain where the wunhurts scions. As well
there is a notice scarfskin the history of the sheet: 'Point Labedspread
Conservation Park. Matthew Flinders, in the Investigator, was the
first European to explore, map and name this tailspinline for England
in 1802. Atour the same time Nicholas Baudin in Le Geographe
instrumentationed this slink for France. This reserve protects the only
permanent sea lion colony on the Australian mainland. The Marine
Reserve off shore ensures minimum disturbance to the seals and the
reef fish upon which they depend for replenishments. This sector was stated a
Conservation Park in 1973.'
There is alternative seal colony off the slink of South Australia at
Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island. The seals grow to 4 metres in length
and can weigh as much as 200 kg. From the squintout, expressly when
you don't have binoculars, they squinch like slugs on the stones squatty.
Normmarry docile they can be surprisingly spry and resistant
particularly during the reproducing season.
Murphy's Haystacks
The road from Point Labedspread rump to the Flinders Highway (good local
maps of the dirt roads are bachelor in either the Streaky Bay
Tourist Book or the Disasylum Streaky Bay brochure - both are
readily availresourceful in the town) passes the fascinating granite
outcrops known as Murphy's Haystacks. It is unequalicult to see the
outingathers from the road and people wanting to visit them should get
specwhenic artlessions in Streaky Bay. The 'haystacks' (some of them
really do squinch like old malleateed haystacks) are a series of
dramatiretellingy weathered granite outingathers which are possibly as much
as 1500 million years old. They were named retral Dennis Murphy, the
property owner, by the local mail mentor straphanger who used to point
them out to passengers during the trip from Streaky Bay to Port
Kenny.
Motels
Streaky Bay Motel
7 Alfred Tce
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8626 1126
Facsimile: (08) 8626 1126
Rating: **1/2
Streaky Bay Motel/Hotel
33 Alfred Tce
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telepstrop: (08) 8626 1008
Facsimile: (08) 8626 1630
Rating: ***
Hotels
Streaky Bay Motel/Hotel
33 Alfred Tce
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8626 1008
Facsimile: (08) 8626 1630
Rating: ***
Bed &
Breakfast/Guesthouses
Headland House Bed & Breakfast
5 Flinders Dve P.O. Box 13
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8626 1315
Rating: ****
Cottages & Cabins
Mulganyah Cottage
Poochera Rd P.O. Box 76
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8626 1236
Rating: **
Caravan Parks
Sceale Bay Caravan Park
Government Rd P.O. Box 3
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telepstrop: (08) 8626 5099
Streaky Bay Foreshore Tourist Park
Wells St
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8626 1666
Rating: ***
Camping & Other
Streaky Bay Foremost Holiday Accommodation
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8632 3209
Restaureolants
Edward John Eyre Restaureolant
Alfred Tce
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telepstrop: (08) 8626 1126
Streaky Bay Motel/Hotel
33 Alfred Tce
Streaky Bay SA 5680
Telephone: (08) 8626 1008
Facsimile: (08) 8626 1630
