Monday, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:41
Black Cockatoo
Bush Camp
Albert Park, via Naracoorte
(30 minutes drive from Lucindale 20km from Narracoote)
Enquiries and bookings through your hosts: Ken & Elizabeth Yelland
T: (08) 8762 1612
M: 0428 621 612
I spent X-mas camped at Black Cockatoo
Bush Camp at Naracoorte with my German Shepherd easily assessable for 2wd, caravans and campers, under the shade of old gum trees and facing a fenced off
dam, plenty of Yabbies and
well stocked with Silver Perch (pay for each kg). A bit spoiled with solar showers and push button
toilets for a
bush camp ($5 per night), the property owners have put a lot of effort in this set up, after years of travelling this country they know what hospitality is. There is plenty of shade and
open space to
camp away from others if there is a need to run a Genny for a couple of hrs to recharge a secondary battery.
I scoped out three trails for after lunch trips in the X-Trail without towing the off road box trailer and left it in All Wheel Drive on all tracks, which I traversed both ways to include land sights on a mud map. I was always ready to drop it into 4wd if needed, larger & heavier 4wds may require tyre pressure lowered and engage 4wd, driver experience will help.
1. 1hr trip - gravel roads & bush tracks including 1.5km of soft sand (I was told the local boys do this track in their utes to avoid the
Police on a Saturday night) to the Naracoorte Township for supplies and caves in the National Park (or 20 km from the
bush camp via bitumen)
2. 1.5hrs trip - gravel roads and bush tracks including 5kms of soft sand and yes a Kia 4wd, V6 and has low and high range got bogged to the axle on the first km of sand (inexperienced driver, no recovery gear).
3. 2.5hsr trip - gravel roads and bush tracks including 10km of soft sand and high grass. (2 & 3 can be combined for a great day trip).
I returned to
Adelaide with 3kg of Yabbies which made a great Yabby Thermidor on rice for the family, looking forward to going back after the summer heat has past (three days above 45 in the shade and you start to run out of beer).
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