Pinkawillinie Conservation Park
A large mallee wilderness north-west of Wudinna, one of the peninsula's biggest tracts of untouched scrub.
A sea of mallee
Inland from the wheat country around Wudinna, Pinkawillinie Conservation Park preserves a vast expanse of mallee — the low, multi-stemmed eucalypts and dense scrub that once covered much of the peninsula before the land was cleared for farming.
This is one of the largest blocks of original vegetation left in the district, and it shelters a rich community of wildlife: mallee birds including emu-wrens and whipbirds, reptiles, kangaroos and emus. Tracks thread through the park for self-sufficient explorers, and the silence and scale are profound.
It is remote, with no facilities, and rewards those who come prepared and unhurried, ready to absorb the subtle beauty of the mallee.
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- South Australian mallee country in winter (from The Overland train).jpg by SCHolar44 , CC0 via Wikimedia Commons