Nowhere else near the coast between Sellicks Hill and Adelaide – a distance of more than 60 kilometres – can one stand within and look across such a “big” chunk of mostly-intact native bush.
The featured image was taken in the northern section, looking inland, southeast to the Willunga Scarp.
The prominent trees are pink gums, Eucalyptus fasciculosa; about which you can discover more here.
Click here for the best place to discover much more about Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park.
(All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken in December 2017 and December 2018)
This scrub’s other signature trees are oft-called “Casuarinas” or “Sheoaks”.
The Aldinga Scrub’s Sheoaks are in fact Allocasuarinas – members of a genus distinct from Casuarinas, but closely related to them.
This park’s Sheoaks are Drooping Sheoaks, Allocasuarina verticillata.
Aldinga Scrub is also renowned as a place where one can easily see something geographically “widespread”, but rare – the Lacy Coral Lichen, Cladia ferdinandii.
I have seen it there, but not when the light was falling in the “right” place, nor when carrying the appropriate camera.
Click here to see Michael Duktkiewicz’s photo of this beautifully weird lichen.
As always with Australian bush, closer views are rewarding.
The final post in this “Aldinga Scrub Trilogy” will feature birds.