 Eyre Peninsula emu |
by Philip Game
Rub shoulders with millionaire fish farmers and other larger-than-life denizens of the Outback around the rugged coast of South Australia’s little-known Eyre Peninsula.
For too long the Spencer Gulf, that inconvenient wedge of water, has relegated South Australia's Eyre Peninsula to somewhere way out west, too far away from metropolitan Australia. On the Eyre the skies are big and blue, and the marine life - Coffin Bay oysters, bluefin tuna, blue pointer sharks, sea lions and southern right whales - equally so.
Fortunes are made, and sometimes lost, along these rugged coasts, as becomes evident from the line-up of multimillion dollar trawlers in the Port Lincoln Marina. Waterfront mansions are home to seafood millionaires like Tony Santic, owner of two-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva.
Out on the land, others, too, think big... Geoff Scholz fought to create an Outback safari camp at the foot of the Gawler Ranges, whilst acclaimed wildlife artist Rosemary Woodford Ganf strives for excellence in her own way.
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