Showing posts with label South Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Australia. Show all posts
Saturday, 14 December 2013
Monday, 21 October 2013
Canunda National Park and the Coorong
The inspiration for writing " The Land only knows " came to me while Lili and I were walking along the coast line in South East of South Australia during our last holiday May 2013.
This part of the world is predominately volcanic limestone country with underlying aquifers.
The Australian aborigines lived close to the sea here for many thousands of years and even today you can still find evidence of occupation in the middens ( large areas of discarded sea shells, in some places many metres deep) that are found in the local sand-hills.
The Australian aborigines lived close to the sea here for many thousands of years and even today you can still find evidence of occupation in the middens ( large areas of discarded sea shells, in some places many metres deep) that are found in the local sand-hills.
Closer to Adelaide the limestone outcrops are replaced with a much larger network of sand dunes that separate the sea and a body of semi fresh water from the Murray River.
To the aborigines it's know as the Coorong and is a World Heritage site of significance because of the vast numbers of migrant birds that frequent the area during the Northern Hemispheres winter.
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| Southern Reaches of the Coorong |
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| Mr Percival and friends |
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| Salt creek Coorong |
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| Inland water ways of the Coorong |
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