Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Coffin Bay Explorer
( 0428 880 621, 1300 788 378;
www.coffinbayexplorer.com
;
adult/
child $85/45)
runs half-day wildlife and seafood tours with plenty of oysters and dolphins.
See also Earth Adventure (
Click here
).
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Sleeping & Eating
To rent out holiday shacks around town from $50 to $300 per night try
Coffin Bay Holi-
1300 986 849, 08-8685 4063;
www.flinderskeepers.com.au
)
.
Coffin Bay Caravan Park
CARAVAN PARK $
( 08-8685 4170;
www.coffinbay.net/caravanpark
;
91 Esplanade; unpowered/powered sites $24/
34, cabins without/with bathroom $75/105, villas $130; )
Resident cockatoos, galahs and
parrots squawk around the shady she-oak sites here, and the cabins are a reasonable bang
for your buck (BYO linen). Lovely two-bedroom family villas, too.
Coffin Bay Hotel
MOTEL $
( 08-8685 4111;
www.coffinbay.net/accommodation/hotel.html
;
cnr Jubilee Dr & Shepperd Ave;
s/d $85/95; )
The sprawling local pub (built, it seems, to avoid any kind of view) has
eight regulation units out the back (all brown brick and teak veneer), and plates up regu-
lation counter meals (mains $16 to $27, serving noon to 2pm and 6pm to 8pm). What
will emerge from the building site out the front?
Oysterbeds
SEAFOOD $$$
( 08-8685 4000;
www.oysterbeds.com.au
;
61 Esplanade; mains $18-28; 10.30am-2pm Wed-
Sun, 6-8pm Fri & Sat, closed Jun-Aug)
A gregarious little food room − all tangerine, sea-blue
and shiny liquor bottles − serving the pick of the local seafood. Takeaway oysters
shucked/ unshucked are $14/10 per dozen.
Coffin Bay to Streaky Bay
There's reliable surf at
Greenly Beach
just south of Coulta, 40km north of Coffin Bay.
There's also good salmon fishing along this wild stretch of coast, notably at
Locks Well
,
where a long, steep stairway called the
Staircase to Heaven
(283 steps? Count 'em…)
leads from the car park down to an awesome surf beach, the deep orange sand strewn
with seashells.
small fishing town on soporific Waterloo Bay, with a beautiful swimming beach and a
