Australian Outback Travel Guide

Parnkalla Walking Trail

Parnkalla Trail, named after the Aborigines that lived in the area at the time of settlement, is a pleasant 14km walk that follows the shores of Boston Bay. The walk will take around 3-4 hours and you will see a variety of plant life, walk along many white beaches or just sit and relax and enjoy the magnificent scenery. Drop into the Port Lincoln Visitor Centre to get a map of where the track starts and finishes.

Parnkalla Walking Trail

Investigator Walking Trail

If you are after a longer walk, then the Investigator Trail is an 85km, 4-5 day walk through the Lincoln National Park. Lincoln National Park is a 31,000 hectare park 15 kms south of Port Lincoln. Here you will find a myriad of secret coves and hidden bays. If you are not up for the 85 kms, then there are a number of little loop trails that you can do.

Investigator Trail

Mikkira Station

Mikkira Station is a secluded picninc or camping area set among the Manna Gums. The stations was first settled in 1842 and was a former head station of the first sheep run south of Port Lincoln. Here you can see the restored original homestead and old gardens, there is an abundance of bird life and koalas living in the trees.

Permits are available from the Mortlock Mobil Service Station, Port Lincoln Visitor Information Centre

Kuju Aborignal Arts & Crafts

Home to the Giant Gulda (Sleepy Lizard) Kuju Arts and Crafts is an Aboriginal owned workshop and gallery. The air conditioned facility showcases local aboriginal art and craft including silk paintings, acrylic on canvas paintings, jewellery, bush medicines, wood artefacts, painted and carved emu and ostrich eggs, souvenir pieces and more.

All works can be purchased. A high percentage of the sale goes directly back to the artist, the remaining is returned to Kuju Arts and Crafts.

Koppio Smithy National Trust Museum

This National Trust Museum consists of a fully restored Blacksmith's Shop built in 1903, an historic cottage also fully restored and displaying antique and other items of interest from around the turn of the century; Glenleigh (1890) a fully restored pine log cottage with thatched roof displaying pioneer furniture, the Women's Pioneer Room displaying vintage washing machines, irons, sewing machines and handicraft of bygone days; a District School containing aboriginal artefacts and other memorabilia.

Heritage Hall - opened in 1992 - contains an excess of hidden heritage belonging to the Jericho family. The collection, given by Gerhardt Jericho consists of his and his parent's family photographs, treasures, and records dating back to 1909 in Koppio and many more years of family history in the Barossa Valley.

The Bob Dobbins collection of fencing and barbed wire; numerous sheds housing a large fleet of vintage tractors and stationary engines, horse-drawn vehicles and agricultural machinery of yesteryear, new Grain Story shed (1880-1930), and 'Burning Issues' exhibition.

The whole complex gives the visitor a first hand view of the hardships and lifestyle of the area's early pioneers. You'll find it approximately 40 kilometres north of Port Lincoln in picturesque hills country and is 30 kilometres south west of Tumby Bay and south east of Cummins.

Wineries

There aren't many wineries mentioned in this Travel Guide, but Port Lincoln has two which gives you the perfect opportunity to stock up before you head across the Nullarbor.

Boston Bay Wines

Where in Australia could you stand in a vineyard, look out to the sparkling blue water of a bay and watch dolphins at play and whales swim by?

The answer Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia in the vineyard of Boston Bay Wines.

This 16 acre vineyard is located at the gateway to Port Lincoln, six kilometres north on the Lincoln Highway, overlooking Port Lincoln's beautiful Boston Bay.

Telephone: +61 8 8684 3600
www.bostonbaywines.com.au
bbw@bostonbaywines.com.au

Lincoln Estate Wines

Years of dedication and a love of both sea and its surrounds, combined with Eyre Peninsula's wonderfully clear and piercing sunlight, its crisp fresh ocean air and deep fertile soils, have all culminated to produce what are wonderous and exceptional wines from a place of truly unspoilt beauty.

Telephone: +61 8 8683 4033
www.lincolnestatewines.com.au
info@lincolnestatewines.com.au