Best Things To Do In Port Lincoln | Nick Tsagaris

Port Lincoln is famous for it’s sea lions and great white shark experiences, with tours that offer you amazing and intimate experiences with some of Australia’s cutest and scariest sea creatures. But there is also so much more to Port Lincoln, with award-winning restaurants, beautiful beaches, great fishing and a tonne of history that will keep you busy for days.

After weeks of national parks, outback towns and remote country roads, Port Lincoln was a welcome relief for us. It was the biggest town we had seen in weeks, pretty much a city by South Australia’s standards, and it had everything we needed to regroup before heading off on another remote adventure across the Eyre Peninsula and the Nullarbor.

It’s so easy to get comfortable in Port Lincoln. It’s a place that instantly feels like home, where you could easily spend days exploring all it’s little nooks and hidden secret spots. We were there for a whole week and could have easily stayed for a whole lot longer.

Port Lincoln is the traditional home to the Barngarla people, the traditional landowners. Their name for Port Lincoln is Kallinyalla (pronounced Galinyalla), which means ‘place of sweet water’.

HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PLAN YOUR VISIT TO PORT LINCOLN:

PORT LINCOLN VISITORS INFORMATION CENTRE

When you arrive at Port Lincoln make your first stop the Port Lincoln Visitors Information Centre. Open seven days a week, you can pick up brochures and information on Port Lincoln and the Eyre Peninsula, as well as travel guides for the rest of South Australia’s regions.

You also need to head to the Port Lincoln Visitors Information Centre if you want to visit Whalers Way, Memory Cove or the National Parks, as many of these places in the area require a permit and a key to access. You don’t want to get all the way out there before you realise that!

Address: 3 Adelaide Place, Port Lincoln || Ph: 1300 788 378

HOW TO GET TO PORT LINCOLN

From Adelaide it takes about seven hours (approximately 647 kilometres) to get to Port Lincoln via the Lincoln Highway and through Port Augusta. It’s an easy drive, with flat freeway the whole way and plenty of signage.

Port Lincoln also has it’s own airport – Port Lincoln Airport PLO – which has direct flights to and from Adelaide daily with either Rex or QantasLink. There are several flights a day, with easy connections to all major cities around Australia.

WHERE TO STAY IN PORT LINCOLN

During our stay in Port Lincoln we stayed at the Port Lincoln Tourist Park, which was the perfect base for our almost week long stay. Right on the water, with it’s own private beach, boat ramp and jetty, the Port Lincoln Tourist Park is in a great location, only a short drive from the centre of town. It’s also pet friendly, which was perfect since my parents and puppy Sophie were joining us for a few days of our stay.

We booked into a powered site during our stay, which had water views and was super large and spacious. The whole park is actually very spread out, so you feel like you have plenty of room to yourself, with big open spaces in between small groups of sites. They also have three huge amenities blocks, so there’s always one close by and you don’t have to compete with the whole park at shower time!

We actually made ourselves quite at home here, we could have easily stayed for a few more days but thought after five nights we should start to move further down the coast.

If you’re not caravanning or camping the Port Lincoln Tourist Park actually has all kinds of accommodation to suit any style, including waterfront apartments, self-contained cabins, luxury townhouses and holiday cabins.

A powered campsite starts from $36 per site, with most sites in the part offering water views. Remember, you can get a discount on your booking when you use your G’day Rewards Card because Port Lincoln Tourist Park is part of the Top Parks family! You can save 10% on your booking, plus as a bonus earn either Velocity Frequent Flyer or Flybuys Points on your stay.

Find out more and book your stay here: Top Parks Port Lincoln Tourist Park

Address: 11 Hindmarsh Street, Port Lincoln || Ph: (08) 8621 4444