Coorong National Park

On day 28 of our journey we left Kingston SE and drove through Coorong National Park. We took a few unsealed roads again to get a better view on some of the wildlife and hidden places.

When you take a look at Coorong National Park on a map or satellite images, you might see dozens of lakes. When we traveled the park in February, which is summer and dry season in Australia, many of the smaller lakes were gone. What remained were very flat salt-pans. Most of them with clayey, semi-solid ground. All of them were covered with islands of reddish short-growing weed, which provides a remarkable contrast to the light grayish bottom of the former lakes.

As we drove along the loop roads, we encountered a species of lizard, which we had never seen before. It was dark, relatively short but fat. It’s skin looked like if it had swallowed a fir cone. We suspect it’s a shingleback skink or bobtail.

After leaving Coorong Nationalpark, we headed to Victor Harbor, where we took a stroll towards Granite Island, which we will share in the next post.