Australia's X-rated underwater show

PO1 Tony Holland
..."Over the last several years, peak cuttlefish season has resulted in hotels and restaurants enjoying full capacity, and the injection of tourism funds has been a welcome boost to an economy mainly reliant on steel production. While there's been talk of building more hotels to handle an influx of tourists, cuttlefish season only lasts three to four months – so how do tourism operators sustain themselves during the rest of the year?

One solution the town hopes will help is improved infrastructure, with a $4m Cuttlefish Sanctuary Tourism and Conservation Project grant announced in 2021. This will help the town manage additional visitors each season and promote Whyalla as a nature tourism destination with the help of improved beach access and walking paths, better signage, the addition of more native vegetation and increased protection for the area's delicate ecosystems.

While cuttlefish tourism in Whyalla is only in its second decade, the city hopes it will become a viable long-term income source.

As for the cuttlefish themselves, we can only hope they continue their ostentatious, sexy shenanigans, proving that life can be as colourful and wild as you want it to be. "

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