Murphys Haystacks

Murphys Haystacks
Formations. The overhanging dome is approximately 8 metres high.

Murphys Haystacks are inselberg rock formations located between Streaky Bay and Port Kenny on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

They obtained their name because a traveller in a coach saw the formation in the distance. He asked how a farmer could produce so much hay. As the farm was on a property owned by a man called Murphy, the rocks became known as Murphys Haystacks.

The reverse side of the Haystacks

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