Tumby Bay is a town on the Eyre Peninsula around 1 hour drive north of Port Lincoln.
Understand
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Tumby Bay has all the essentials of an Eyre Peninsula coastal town, the beach, the jetty, and the pub facing the water. Good fishing, and a laid back lifestyle.
The town has a largely seachange or retired resident population, with some residents even doing the daily commute down the highway to Port Lincoln.
Get in
Get around
See
- Tumby Bay National Trust Museum.
Do
- Swim from the pier. There is a sandy beach, and a swimming pontoon in deep water.
- Tumby Bay Mangrove Boardwalk.
Buy
- Foodland. Another Woolies but only in SA and Western New South Wales.
Eat
Drink
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You can drink at the Tumby Bay Hotel, dating from the late 1800s, or the Seabreeze which is a relative newcomer built in the early 1900s. Both serve evening meals and have accommodation. The Tumby Bay Hotel has a rather odd collection of old video games machines in a separate room for the kids, but the Pac-Man game may give more amusement to their parents.
Sleep
- Modra's Apartments Tumby Bay.
- Tumby Marina Villas.
- The Seabreeze Hotel.
- Tumby Bay Motel.
- Sip'n Save - Tumby Bay Hotel.
- Tumby Villas.
Connect
Go next
- Arno Bay walk along the Arno Bay Boardwalk, through the mangroves and down to the beach.
- Cleve, nearby agricultural centre and administrative centre for this region. 18 hole all season golf course, skate park, bowling greens, netball/tennis/basketball courts with coin operated lights, town oval and playgrounds.
- Whyalla
- Port Augusta
- Iron Knob
- Flinders Ranges
- Cowell
- Port Lincoln
- Coffin Bay Fresh oysters and the Coffin Bay Conservation Park.
- Wallaroo on nearby Yorke Peninsula (ferry on the new ferry link that opened February 2012.
- Lock
- Elliston
- Nullarbor Plain