Streaky Bay

After completing our travel through the Gawler ranges, we ended up a little over an hour from the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. We decided to take off for Streaky Bay then, to see the ocean! We showed up to the small town about dinner time and took a pleasant swim near the harbor. We kept feeling our hands were hitting something while swimming. It felt a bit like one of the water jets on the side of a pool. Towards the end, we realized there were tons of small transparent jellyfish that we were banging into.

Harbor area:

Our hotel:

According to the tourist guide, Streaky Bay is one of the centers of seafood in Australia and we couldn't wait to get a good seafood dinner. Unfortunately, the really good restaurant in town is only open 4 days a week. The only other place that served seafood was our hotel. They had about 8 seafood meals:
    several types of fish: deep fried and breaded
    shrimp: deep fried and breaded
    abalone: deep fried and breaded
    calamari: deep fried and breaded.
The oyster appetizer was the only dish that was not deep fried and breaded.
They did sell seafood in the shops there, but we didn't have any facilities for cooking our own meals. 

Non breaded oysters:

The following morning, we did a scenic loop 20 or 30 km down the coast. There were some spectacular views from the cliffs overlooking the ocean.

We found one place to do a bit of snorkeling. The water was pretty chilly. We saw a few fish and some seaweed, but nothing tremendously exciting. 

Duncan getting up the nerve to get wet:

On the return part of the loop we came to the dune section with beautiful fine white sand and no signs telling us we couldn't climb on them.

View at the top of the dunes:

 Weird sand formations:

I did the obligatory running jump down an edge of the dune.

Finally, we went up the coast a few kilometers to the Whistling Rocks. These are porous rocks where air and water is forced up tubes in the rocks by the impact of waves at the waters edge. The higher holes produce odd breathing sounds as air is forced up them. The ones at the water's edge would spray fountains of water into the air.
A sign describing the phenomena:

Water spraying from the blow holes as a wave hits.