Streaky Bay is a small fishing and farming town on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula, far enough from Adelaide to feel like the coast has loosened its grip on the usual holiday circuit. The town faces a calm, pale-blue bay, but the country around it quickly turns wilder: limestone cliffs, surf beaches, low scrub, saltbush, and long roads that run through wheat and sheep country.
The town itself is quiet and practical. The jetty and foreshore are the easy place to start, with fishing boats, pelicans, and a good sense of the bay's working life. Streaky Bay's better reason to stay, though, is the loop of natural sights around it. The Whistling Rocks and Blowholes show the Southern Ocean at its noisy best, while Murphy's Haystacks rise out of farmland like weathered stone animals.
Give yourself a spare day with a car. Drive the coast, stop at beaches when the wind is kind, and continue south to Point Labatt to watch Australian sea lions from the clifftop platform. Streaky Bay is not a polished resort town, and that is a large part of its appeal: it is the Eyre Peninsula in a direct, salt-stained form.