Summer Sojourn along South Australia's Eyre Peninsula
Talk about in your face. These girls have no sense of personal space. But who can resist their soulful eyes, teddy bear noses and whopping whiskers when they’re centimetres from your snorkel mask? These adorable Australian sea lions are pregnant, says our Baird Bay Experience guide, and when they’re not frolicking with us they're nuzzling each other playfully on the sandy bottom. What an enthralling welcome to the Eyre Peninsula.
Our Star RV motorhome’s livery – emblazoned with coastal images – broadcasts our touring intentions (albeit the images are of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road). We’re tracing South Australia’s grand coastal route, the Eyre Peninsula’s ‘Seafood Frontier’, which combines rugged Southern Ocean shores with protected bays and epic beaches, served with a side of seafood.
We start at Streaky Bay in the west, follow the coast south-east to Port Lincoln, then head north up the western edge of the Spencer Gulf. Streaky Bay Road delivers us from golden grain country along the inland Eyre Highway to aquatic blues on the coast.
