Our Story
Born from a passion for wildlife, photography, and remote landscapes, Tour South was created to share a more personal side of South Australia. What began with a first visit to Port Lincoln in 2016 slowly grew into a life built around the Eyre Peninsula — exploring rugged coastlines, quiet outback tracks, local wildlife, and the simple pleasure of travelling slowly and meaningfully.
Today, Tour South remains a small owner-operated business focused on authentic experiences, nature, and showing visitors the places that continue to inspire us every day.
About Ben
I first came to Port Lincoln in 2016 for shark cage diving, thinking it would simply be another adventure trip. Instead, the Eyre Peninsula completely changed the way I looked at travel and nature.
What stayed with me was not only the ocean, but the feeling of the region itself — empty coastlines, wild weather rolling in from the Southern Ocean, kangaroos on quiet beaches, dusty backroads, and the sense of space that is becoming harder to find in the modern world. It was raw, remote, and refreshingly real.
Photography has always been a huge part of my life and the way I experience places. Long before Tour South existed, I spent years teaching myself wildlife and nature photography, chasing light, landscapes, and wildlife across South Australia and beyond. Photography taught me patience and observation — to slow down and appreciate the details, whether it is an emu walking through the dunes, sea lions resting on the shoreline, or the colours of sunset changing across the coast.
In 2018, I moved to Adelaide, and by 2019 I was working in the shark cage diving industry with Adventure Bay Charters. Over time, I found myself spending more and more days exploring the Eyre Peninsula beyond the usual tourist spots — often with a camera in hand and no strict plan except to see what was out there.
Outside of touring, I’m also a volunteer with the State Emergency Service, involved in off-road rescue, storm response, and land search. Being part of the SES has given me a strong respect for remote travel, changing conditions, and the importance of understanding the environments we move through.
These days, guiding tours feels like a natural extension of everything I enjoy most — photography, wildlife, off-road travel, local stories, and sharing the parts of South Australia that made me fall in love with the region in the first place.
About Tour South
Tour South started in early 2020 as a small owner-operated tour business built around a simple idea — showing visitors the side of South Australia that I genuinely love myself.
The tours are shaped by years of exploring the Eyre Peninsula and regional South Australia, from remote beaches and coastal dunes to outback tracks, wildlife encounters, fresh local seafood, and quiet landscapes far away from busy tourist crowds.
Tour South has never aimed to be a large-scale tourism business. Keeping things small and personal is an important part of the experience. Every tour is still guided by me, allowing guests to travel at a more relaxed pace and experience places in a more genuine way.
South Australia’s new tourism message, “Simple Pleasures,” is something that strongly connects with how Tour South operates. Out here, luxury is often not about resorts or schedules — it is standing alone on a windswept beach, watching sea lions in the wild, sharing fresh oysters by the ocean, driving through untouched dunes, or simply sitting quietly as the sun disappears over the Southern Ocean.
That feeling is what Tour South is really about.
Not rushing from stop to stop, but slowing down enough to properly experience the landscapes, wildlife, and atmosphere that make this part of Australia so special.
