Red Banks Conservation Park
We were on our way home and stopped here for an overnight stay (see Camps 6) and a short relaxing walk after a hard days drive. The park is some 12 km east of Burra, SA The bush is typical of the country around the area and in fact we had driven through this type of vegetation for the last 100km at least. There are a couple of walks in this area. One is for 3-4 hours, the other a shorter walk of around 1 hour, we did this latter walk late in the day, near sunset. It's a great camping area for car/caravan based camping and has a standard park long drop toilet. Palaeontologists have called this area one of the richest megafauna sites in Australia. Up until approximately 65,000 years ago, Red Banks was home to Diprotodons, a huge marsupial that weighed between one to two tonnes, often likened to a giant wombat. Website |
Our short walk
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Poles lead the way - don't miss
one like we did.
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Looks like sunset is coming
soon.
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Yes, it seems that we may get
back in the dark.
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The creek - looks like a lot of
erosion happening.
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Down to the creek bed.
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Suns out again.
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Self portrait
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Just waiting to fall.
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somewhere along here we should
have gone up the
bank again, but we missed the sign and kept walking. |
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I understand that the fossils
are found in these cliffs.
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The sun on these cliffs looked
great.
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We found the Day Area - back on
track
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Locals - well some 30 years ago.
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The entire area
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Home again.
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