The turn off from Eyre Highway to Toolinna Cove is at 32°23’36.71″S 124°28’28.97″E., 200 metres east of a Parking Bay.
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- On the way to Toolinna Cove.
In this country it takes only light rain to make tracks impassable. Toolinna Cove is in the Nuystland Nature Rseerve.
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- Sideways is always fun.
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- Eight kilometres from Toolinna Cove
Toolinna Cove was the only suitable break in the Baxter Cliffs where supplies and materials for the 1877 East-West telegraph line could be brought ashore.
It is still the only place today where a boat can be landed between Point Culver and Twilight Cove – a distance of 160 kilometres.
Nearby Toolinna Rockhole is a natural waterhole that has been improved by a government dogger.
© Kim Epton 2016-2025
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