__NOTOC__ {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Pink Bay | image = State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-16-161.jpg | image_size = | caption = Pink Bay beach near Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island [State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/16/161] | pushpin_map = Australia South Australia | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_map_caption = Location in [[South Australia]] | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | coords = {{coord|35.8324612|S|138.1240392|E|type:waterbody_region:AU_region:AU-SA|format=dms |display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes =<ref name="LMV-PB">{{cite web|title=Search result for 'Pink Bay, Bay' with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer'|url=http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/|website=Location SA Map Viewer|publisher=Government of South Australia|access-date=2 January 2018|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111173042/http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/|url-status=live}}</ref> | type = [[Bay]] | etymology = | part_of = [[Backstairs Passage]] | inflow = | outflow = | catchment = | basin_countries = Australia | designation = Marine park<ref name=mp>{{cite web|title=Encounter Marine Park Management plan summary|url=https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/marineparks/docs/mp-gen-15encounter-managementplan.pdf|publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources|access-date=2 January 2018|page=38 of 39|archive-date=2 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802065939/https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/marineparks/docs/mp-gen-15encounter-managementplan.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> | length = | width = | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | salinity = | shore = | temperature_high = | temperature_low = | frozen = | islands = | trenches = | benches = | cities = }}
'''Pink Bay ''' is a [[bay]] in the Australian state of [[South Australia]] and is located at the east end of [[Dudley Peninsula]] on [[Kangaroo Island]] overlooking [[Backstairs Passage]] in the gazetted locality of [[Willoughby, South Australia|Willoughby]] about {{convert|110|km}} south of the state capital of [[Adelaide]] and about {{convert|20|km}} east of [[Penneshaw, South Australia|Penneshaw]].<ref name="LMV-PB"/>
==Description== Pink Bay is described as "a narrow, V-shaped bay" with a "40 m pocket of sand wedged inside."<ref name="KI-56">{{cite web |title= Pink Bay SA |url= https://beachsafe.org.au/beach/sa/kangaroo-island/willoughby/pink-bay |publisher= Surf Life Saving Australia |access-date= 1 January 2018 |archive-date= 12 April 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180412091219/https://beachsafe.org.au/beach/sa/kangaroo-island/willoughby/pink-bay |url-status= live }}</ref> It opens into [[Moncrieff Bay]], a larger bay occupying the waters between [[Cape St Albans]] in the north and [[Cape Willoughby]] in the east.<ref name=DMH>{{Citation | author1=South Australia. Department of Marine and Harbors (DMH)| title=The Waters of South Australia a series of charts, sailing notes and coastal photographs | publication-date=1985 | publisher=Dept. of Marine and Harbors, South Australia | page= chart 12|isbn=978-0-7243-7603-2}}</ref> The coastline on either side of Pink Bay is "predominantly composed of steep, 100 m high vegetated bluffs."<ref name="KI-56"/>
Its sandy beach is reported as being an unpatrolled swimming beach by [[Surf Life Saving Australia]] (SLSA) who considers it to be ‘least hazardous’ and that "it faces north and is somewhat protected, but does receive low swell."<ref name="KI-56"/> While the SLSA advises that most visitors to nearby Cape Willoughby come to "view the scenery and visit the lighthouse, with little use of the beaches," Sea Dragon Lodge, described as "a luxury boutique retreat" and located on land surrounding Pink Bay advises on its website that the beach has "private access."<ref name=seadragon>{{cite web|title=Sea Dragon Lodge|url=http://www.seadragonlodge.com.au|publisher=Dragon Lodge|access-date=2 January 2018}}</ref>
Its name is derived from "the pink colouring in the local granite."<ref name="SLSA">{{cite web|title=Pink Bay beach near Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island [PRG 280/1/16/161] • Photograph|url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/16/161|publisher=[[State Library of South Australia]]|access-date=2 January 2018|date=1914|archive-date=3 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103011712/https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/16/161|url-status=live}}</ref>
==History== Pink Bay was used as an access point by the South Australian Marine Board for goods and personnel for the [[Cape Willoughby Lighthouse]] from the early 1880s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197776686 |title=Latest News. |newspaper=[[Evening Journal (Adelaide)|Evening Journal]] |volume=VIX |issue=4196 |location=Adelaide |date=17 October 1882 |access-date=2 January 2018 |page=2|edition=SECOND |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The property surrounding Pink Bay was originally leased and farmed by Tony Ebert from 1900 until 1918 when it was bought by Annie Louise Lashmar. It remained in the Lashmar family until 1998 when it was bought by Mike and Cherry Hobbs who planted many trees to revegetate the cleared farmland.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} In 2008 it was sold to Sea Dragon Lodge.<ref name=seadragon/>
==Flora and fauna== {{expand section|date=July 2017}} Pink Bay has a diversity of fish life and aquamarine variety including: [[King George whiting|King George Whiting]], [[Southern school whiting|Silver Whiting]], [[Flathead (fish)|Flathead]], [[Arripis trutta|Salmon]], [[Australian herring|Tommy Ruffs]], Mullet, Blue Throated Wrasse, [[Squid]], [[Yellowtail amberjack#Yellowtail kingfish|Yellowtail Kingfish]] & various sharks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fishingspots.net.au/kangaroo-island.htm |title=Fishing Information at Pink Bay |access-date=22 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831133210/http://www.fishingspots.net.au/kangaroo-island.htm |archive-date=31 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Protected area status== As of late 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are within a habitat protection zone in the [[protected area]] known as the [[Encounter Marine Park]].<ref name=mp/>
== References == {{reflist}} {{Bays of South Australia|state=collapsed}} {{Kangaroo Island|state=collapsed }}
[[Category:Bays of South Australia]] [[Category:Dudley Peninsula]] [[Category:Backstairs Passage]]