Coffin Bay
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Understand
The bay's name is another legacy of Matthew Flinders, who named the town after his friend Sir Isaac Coffin.
The town has calm water, boating and fishing. It is a popular summer tourist destination on the peninsula.
Get in
Coffin Bay is just off the Flinders Highway and is well signposted from Port Lincoln and surrounding areas. There is no public transport to Coffin Bay. The closest airport and coach service is in Port Lincoln, where you can hire a car. Coffin Bay is around 8 hours drive from Adelaide and 40 minutes from Port Lincoln.
Get around
There is a nice walkway around the shoreline.
There is no public transport.
There is no public transport.
See
Coffin Bay - National and conservation parksCoffin Bay National Park is to the west of the town. Kellidie Bay Conservation Park is to the east. The Coffin Bay National Park has a diverse coastal landscape with high windswept cliffs, sand dunes, sheltered waters for boating and swimming and long white beaches. The parks are home to an abundance of birds, wildlife, wildflowers, sheoaks and black tea trees. You need to buy a ticket when entering.
20 km of sealed road leading outward from the town entrance provides easy access to picturesque local destinations.
- Avoid Bay
- Point Avoid
- Almonta Beach
- Yangie camping ground
Buy
There is an ATM in the general store, which will dispense up to $200.
There is a pizza place.
Art and Craft Market
Eat
- Oysterbeds serve delicious local seafood. Their pepper baked Tuna is fantastic.
Go next
- Lock
- Elliston
- Port Augusta
- Whyalla
- Nullarbor Plain
- Arno Bay
- Tumby Bay
- Port Lincoln