Streaky Bay, South Australia

Streaky Bay is a South Australian coastal town that lies on the Great Australian book on the Flinders Highway in the west of the Eyre Peninsula. It is 303 km from Port Lincoln and 727 km from Adelaide and has 1,059 inhabitants. In the village is the regional administration of the Streaky Bay District Council.

History

The first Europeans who came to this bay, was the Dutch explorer Pieter Nuyts, when he in 1627 with the 't Gulden Zeepaerdt sailed there. For him, a monument at the Bay Road was built in the place. The explorers Matthew Flinders gave this place its name in 1802 and Edward John Eyre built three miles from the present town of core his portfolio during his expedition to Albany on. The site of the depot, which is called Eyre 's Waterhole, is now on the road Port Kenny. The place was named Flinders in 1872 and renamed in 1940 in Streaky Bay. From 1880, the sheep wool trade and the associated transport on ships developed. Around 1906 a telegraph station was built that created the connection to Port Lincoln.

Location and economic

The place is dominated by agriculture, from crop cultivation and from sheep farming, but also from fishing and tourism. Fishing as a source of income has evolved since the beginning of 1900, the Australian fish, Snapper and King George Whiting are caught preferred. Streaky Bay is characterized by a landscape of scrubland, coastal cliffs and lake bays, but also by agriculture. The country is inhabited by Aborigines. 30 kilometers from the town lies the Calpatanna Waterhole Conservation Park, which is characterized by coastal landscapes and salt lakes. Noteworthy are the Murphy's Haystacks, weathered and shaped by the wind cut pink granite rocks that are 1.59 billion years old. The long coastline of the peninsula leads many tourists in the summer in the vicinity of Streaky Bay and in the Nuyts - Archipelago - Conservation Park ( an archipelago ), who seek out long and partially deserted beaches, the rocks and cliffs at the southern ocean to coasts and insist on the islands. Accommodation can be found in hotels, motels, caravan parks and campsites in place.

In the village there are clubs for football, cricket, bowling, a golf course and swimming pools, a hospital, a primary school and a public library. Accessible is the place on the Flinders Highway buses to Adelaide and with the airplane on the 10 kilometers walk from town Streaky Bay Airport, which can be reached from the airport or airport Ceduna to Port Lincoln from.