The Eyre Peninsula, South Australia: The Aussie spot where Google maps can't help you

By Craig Tansley
November 14 2015 - 12:15am
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey
Sea lions sitting on the rocks, Baird Bay, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Photo: Cultura RM/Philip Lee Harvey

Google maps can't help  you here ...  if you get a signal for your mobile phone, that is. Some of the Eyre Peninsula Google never seemed to bother mapping at all; just imagine: entire chunks of Australia hidden from satellites. In these parts, rental cars – four-wheel drives most of them, there's not much point in driving anything daintier – come equipped with walkie-talkies and ugly black bull bars to muscle off the metre-and-a-half-high red roos that come at you in the dawn and  dusk.

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