Trevor’s Travels

Archive for the 'National Parks' Category

A new town, a new park and a new bird

Cocoparra National Park, central New South Wales
Our holiday in New South Wales
September 2007
Our destination on day two of our holiday was Lake Cargelligo. The quickest way would have been to go from Hay straight to Rankins Springs, but we had travelled that route several time before. We’d never been to Griffith so we took a [...]

Wildflowers of Geebung National Park, NSW

Orchid flower
Several years ago on a holiday in New South Wales we spent several days exploring the area around Parkes. One of the places we headed for was the Geebung National Park north east of the city.
Wildflower in Geebung NP NSW
Our interests complement each other; I go to places like national parks to look at [...]

Lunch at Salt Creek, South Australia

A salt lake, Coorong National Park, South Australia
On our way home from our recent holiday in Robe, South Australia we stopped at Salt Creek. We took a short diversion road from the main highway and drove into the Coorong National Park. We stopped at a small picnic ground there so we could sit down at [...]

Picnic at Newland Head Conservation Park

Settler’s Cottage in Newland Head CP
After our visit to Waitpinga Beach (see my previous two articles) we drove the short distance to the camping and picnic ground in the nearby Newland Head Conservation Park. This park is only a short distance from Victor Harbor and little over an hour’s drive south of Adelaide in [...]

Waitpinga Beach, south coast of South Australia

Waitpinga Beach, Newland Head CP
After spending some time in Victor Harbor (see previous two posts) we drove on to Waitpinga Beach for a picnic morning tea. Waitpinga Beach is part of the Newland Head Conservation Park a few kilometres west of Victor Harbor in South Australia.
Popular Beach
It had been a long time since our last [...]