P&A GoGoGo: Lincoln National Park

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Lincoln National Park

Donnington Lighthouse

About 15km from Port Lincoln is the Lincoln National Park****, entrance fee is $10, camping per night per car is $7. There are few walking trails for visitors. We took a short walk along Surfleet Cove, nothing spectacular. We chose to camp at September Beach, with has toilet facility and picnic table. It’s a wide sandy beach, perfect for swimming.

From September beach, there’s a walking trail to Donnington lighthouse which takes about 15minutes. The lighthouse is not the highlight, but the small Donnington Island opposite it! On the island, there are many black and white spots, using a binocular or camera you can see that it’s all Pied Cormorant bird. How cute, looks just like a colony of penguins on the island. We spend quite some time taking picture of the birds, and it was indeed rewarding.

Few sealions swam by to say hello, performing few jumps right in front of us~! It was just amazing! After a while, we saw pods of dolphins swimming by. It’s a great place to observe these cuties. . . Back to the camp, when we look back at the bird pictures, zoomed in, we can clearly see few sealions lying on the island rocks! It’s like, they came to us purposely to see what we’re up to.

Our dinner from our catch, squid and tommies =)

September Beach

The biggest rainbow we have ever seen! Can you find Angie in this picture?

Stamford Hill hike is wonderful, about 45 min return hike to the hilltop where a monument for Matthew Flinders (the explorer of SA) was erected. From the peak, we can see the Port Lincoln and NP clearly.

2 in 1 butterflies?

Ant colony. Feel itchy just by the look of it. . .

The next day we went to Taylors Landing beach. From there we took the hike towards Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area (one of the best place to camp in SA) which is a protected area and allows only 15 vehicles. Seems like a mysterious place. Unfortunately it is 4wd accessible only. It was a long hike and we couldn’t get to the cove.

Superb Fairy Wren / Blue Wren. Love the colour of this bird! Bird fact: Superb blue wren males have enormous testes, up to 10% of their body weight. By comparison, this would give an average man testes weighing 9 kgs!!!