After leaving Adelaide I headed towards the ocean, heading in a general direction towards Melbourne which led me to the Coorong National Park.
ABOUT THE PARK
Coorong is 130km/140kms (depending on which source you read) stretch of saltwater lagoons protected from the Southern Ocean by the sweeping sand dunes.
LOADS OF FUN 4WDR TRAILS, STUNNING BEACHES AND GREAT CAMP SITES
To access the beach/coastal areas requires 'crossing' the lagoon and then the 'dunes". There are several 'crossings" at various points a long the length of the park and access across these is seasonal and all are 4wdr tracks.
Travelling from Adelaide towards Melbourne the 1st crossing that was accessible-open to me was Tea Tree Crossing.
This is a summer-only crossing as it requires driving across a dry (in summer) lagoon bed in order to access the dune crossing.
The crossings are well signposted and the recommendations at all crossings are that you deflate those pressure down to 15-20PSI in addition to engaging 4wdr.
The beginning of the 'dune crossing' was up a narrow soft sand rutted dune ...
I managed to get about 3/4 up the 1st dune before beginning to loose momentum and sink into the deep sand (panic) and loosing traction and backed down before I actually got stuck...
Parking the truck on solid safe ground I walked the dune and was very pleased that I had backed down... see the video that follows.
The night before I had camped at Parnka Point, where there are a choice of two bush camping sites.
I appeared to have the campsite all to myself until meet the curious neighbours, join me in meeting them in the video below.
A quick walk through the nearby vegetation, attempting to photograph emu, ended up with me contributing significantly to seed dispersal of local plants
I liked the campsite and location and suspect if you stay there you will have the opportunity to meet the locals as well.
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