Coorong NP
Whilst living in Adelaide we go tot he Coorong NP twice. Once we still drive down with the Pajero and the second time we are driving our dream car… the photos shown are a mixture of the 2 weekends.
We spend a short weekend down south from Adelaide. It’s only 1.5 hrs drive, so we leave Saturday lunch time and come back Sunday afternoon. Saturday we spent in Coorong NP on the ski’s. We launch from Hindmarsch Island and paddle out to the Younghusband Peninsula at Barkers Knoll where we walk across to the ocean. The paddle is lovely, walk is great. We see lots of animal tracks on the short walk – mainly emus, but only see one kangaroo.
That night we camp in Newland Head NP and go for dinner in Whalers Inn in Victor Harbour followed by another hike to the beach from the campsite.
The next day we walk some of the Heysen trail through the park and loop it back via another walk. This made a great walk from around 10km with beautiful views and lots of wild flowers already out!
going for a paddle in the Coorong
Jon kayaking
Jude kayaking underneath the Coorong NP sign
going for a walk to the other (ocean) side
spot the kangaroo
Jon in the dunes
beautiful wild flowers already out
the sand dunes
pelicans
amazing sunset
breakfast!
the map
lookout
Jon on the walk
Jon still on the walk
spectacular cliffs
there are hundreds of little flowers on these sticks
it attracts lots of bees, if you lick the flowers you can taste the sweet nectar
beautiful
blue tongue lizard
another paddle
our kayaks
great beach for cricket…
Jude on her ski
in some places it gets really shallow and it’s faster to push
crossing with the free ferry
our awesome new car Lara with the kayaks
picnic lunch by the river
some wine tasting on the way home
We left Saturday morning and drove to Meningie, which is close to the Coorong and Lake Alexandrina (one of Australia’s largest fresh water lakes). We had loaded the kayaks on top of Lara which involved lots of climbing onto the roof, so we could go for a paddle on the Coorong. Had a lovely walk on a perfect beach-cricket ground and hiked across the dunes to the ocean.
That night we sat by our tent and just watched the shooting stars – it was awesome! The next day we took the bikes for a ride along a 4wd track to Pelican Point and had a look at the pelicans from one of the barrages that keeps the salt water out of the lakes. Quite a nice ride, but the flies were horrendous! On the way back we took a small detour, crossed the mighty Murray river on a little ferry, had a picnic by the water and tasted some great wine at Bremerton.