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Coffin Bay,
where relaxing is easy has all the facilities for you
and your family to enjoy nature at its best with
fabulous fishing (boat, beach, rocks, jetty), boating,
sailing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, diving,
surfing, windsurfing, in fact all water sports plus walking
trails and fabulous scenery, mini golf, internet cafe, free public
barbeques, oval, tennis courts, BMX track, golf course
(clubs for hire from the caravan park) and lawn bowling
rinks. There are also plenty of half day and day trips
that you can do including to such places as Coffin Bay
National Park, Gallipoli Beach (the site where the film
Gallipoli starring Mel Gibson was shot), Farm Beach,
Mount Dutton Bay, Frenchmans, the animal farm , museums etc.
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There are two
general stores (food, petrol, ice, bait etc.), post
office, butcher, motor mechanic, auto electrician, two bottle shops, hotel,
chemist, hairdresser, award winning restaurant the
'Oysterbeds' plus the yacht club and sporting club have
meals Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings.
The adjacent
Coffin Bay National Park has a diverse
coastal landscape from high windswept cliffs, massive
sand dunes, limestone pavements with sheoaks and black
tea trees to long white beaches and sheltered
waters.
The park is home to
an abundance of birds, wildlife and
wildflowers.
Although there is 1 km of unsealed road
from the town to the Coffin Bay National Park there is
20 kms of sealed road from the entrance to such
picturesque places as Avoid Bay, Point Avoid, Almonta
Beach and Yangie camping ground.
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For the
ardent 4WD enthusiast there is the track across the sand
dunes to Gunyha Beach or for the more adventurous a trip
to Point Sir Isaacs at the tip of the Coffin Bay
Peninsula, a six hour return journey.
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