Coffin Bay

Coffin Bay is a town of 581 inhabitants on the southern end of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, located 46 kilometers from Port Lincoln.

History

The tribe of Aborigines who Parnkalla, lived in this area before it was settled by the whites in the 1830s. When the British explorer Matthew Flinders Bay, discovered on 16 February 1802, he named it after his friend Sir Isaac Coffin. 1966 places Coffin Bay and Port Lincoln by a private railway line was connected to the transport of lime to the beaches. This line has been abandoned in the early 1970's.

Today

Today live in this place about 430, which rises in the summer time by tourists to 2000 people. The tourists come especially to visit the Coffin Bay National Park with its historic trees of eucalyptus and Baumkronenpfad to 40 meters in height. But they also come for boating, swimming, diving, water skiing and surfing. Furthermore, fished from the rocks and from boats. In the bay is also a group of seals lives.

Well known are the large and coveted oysters that grow in the oyster farming in the clean waters of the Bay of Coffin Bay.