Spring Gully Conservation Park is 8 kilometres south of Clare, in South Australia’s mid-north.
From Adelaide, it is a little less than a two hour drive; day-tripping from the city is feasible.
However, the so-called “Clare Valley” (in truth, this distinctive region has more than one valley) is such a rewarding destination that it is a much better idea to base yourself there for at least several days.
As the next post will further explain, Spring Gully is of great “conservation value”, and it is more than a little “vulnerable”.
Meanwhile, enjoy what a ridgetop vantage point can do, late on an autumn day…
At 5.20 pm on 10 April 2022 I loved the appearance of the pictured trees (variously, just-surviving, or no-longer quite managing) on their steep and demanding slope, moments before it slipped into full shadow.
Had I been standing on exactly the same spot two hours earlier – and looking in precisely the same direction – there would have been no good reason to attempt a similarly-framed image.
Even within the space of a few seconds, the “very same view” can become very different!
My vantage point for this & the next post was at/adjacent to the lookout atop the high point of the ridge on the seaward edge of Spring Gully Conservation Park.
The featured image looked south-ish and immediately downhill.
If one looks west-ish and downhill, one sees cleared (over-cleared) farmland, right across the coastal plain, as pictured below.
On a clearer day I would have been able to see the eastern shore of Spencer Gulf; on a very clear day, I might even have glimpsed Eyre Peninsuula’s edge, on the far side of the Gulf.
As this series’ next post will illustrate & explain, the closer view – inland/eastish – looks down to what really makes Spring Gully Conservation Park special.
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