Whalers Way is privately owned land on the tip of the Southern Eyre Peninsula adjacent to Lincoln National Park. It offers some of the most spectacular, accessible and dramatic coastal views in South Australia.

Callistemon

Rib fruited mallee

Huge grasstrees line the road

The road to Whalers Way looks across to Lincoln National Park

Locked gate with $40 entry

The road stops at various coastal landform features that you view at your own risk.

Cape Wiles cliffs

Coastal lookout

Emu near the ocean cliffs

Sinkhole in the limestone

Sleepy Lizard/Shingleback

Cape Carnot is considered to be the eastern most point of the Great Australian Bight. I carnot disagree with that.

Blowholes at Cape Carnot

Pounding ocean swell

We cannot access the Whaleman’s Grotto and Cave as it is high tide and too dangerous.

Typical South Australian coastal road

Threakstone Crevasse – Threaky! The Threakstone family has owned this huge chunk of land along the coast since the 1880s.

The return journey along Whalers Way

Fishery Bay where a historical whaling station was located.

Emus at Sleaford sharing the paddocks with…

…. these woolly guys.

Give way – although some cars just speed through. We saw many roadkill emus on our travels as some people won’t slow down even when they see them.

Wanilla Nature Reserve is an area of original bushland west of Port Lincoln.

Wildfowers at Wanilla

Superb blue wren at Wanilla

Big Swamp Nature Reserve has three lakes

Birds at Big Swamp

The Old Mill was built in 1846 is the oldest standing structure in Port Lincoln. It was built as part of a flour mill complex but never used for that purpose. Locals wanted “OO” flour but they didn’t have a licence to mill.

Port Lincoln and Boston Bay from the top of the Old Mill