Port Elliot is a beach resort on the Flerieu Peninsula just about an hour south of Adelaide and a great place to escape the city and enjoy the ocean. It’s a small, sleepy town with a couple of shops, pubs and a bakery but the main attraction is its beautiful white sandy beach and good waves for learner surfers. It soon became my favourite sanctuary and we returned there a couple of times over our six weeks of adventures.
On our trip around South Australia with Vantastic Adventures we stayed at the brand new YHA hostel, Port Elliot Beach House, for a couple of nights in Ikea luxury. The hostel itself is completely brand spanking new and if you have a YHA pass its one of the cheaper ones to stay in. It has a small friendly feel so you can easily meet people but it also comes up there with hotel standards.
You can chill out with a Coopers beer in the deck chairs in the back garden, cook up an amazing feast in the kitchen, chill out in the air conditioned TV room with plasma TV or eat, read and chat to other backpackers in the dining room. There are private couples rooms and dorm rooms and all are clean and well maintained. We’d highly recommend staying there, the man who runs the hostel, Ray, is a legend and helped us plan our forthcoming trip to Kangaroo Island.
We took the iconic horse drawn tram, a symbol of South Australia,to Granite Island where we saw a seal chilling out in the ocean and penguins relaxing on the rocks! Trent went surfing at Waitpinga Beach and quickly jumped out of the water when he saw a black shadow circling beneath him! A man told him he’d seen an 20 foot shark just a couple of weeks previously! Just a little taster for the shark diving in Port Lincoln.
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