Streaky Bay National Trust Museum

If Great White Sharks fascinate you, then this is place to find out about them and you can also meet the people who hunted them in a rich gallery of local characters.

The Museum records the life of one of the West Coast's earliest European settlements. It has long been a commercial and recreational fishing port. It also has been a favoured base for shark hunters, which was, in the days when it was acceptable to hunt sharks for sport and some mammoth sharks have been recorded around Streaky Bay. The Museum tells of Barnacle Bill and Barnacle Lil, one of which was estimated to have been 16 meters long or more.

You can find much more in the Museum, as there are the two and three Plankers, the large blue swimmer crabs which abound in the local waters. They traditionally measured the town's jetty according to how many of its planks the crabs spanned. There is the legendary Daisy Bates, a who lived with Aboriginal people at Ooldea for many years. Daisy Bates lived her last years at Streaky Bay and the museum has records of her life.