The Gawler Ranges are home to a profusion of wildlife in numbers rarely seen elsewhere in Australia.
With gorges, weathered rocky outcrops and seasonal waterfalls, the area has an extraordinary range of wildly beautiful outback country. The contrasting colours of the red outback sands, clear blue skies and the glistening white of Lake Gairdner’s massive salt pan is one of the great but rarely visited sights of the Australian outback.
It is also one of the few places in the country where you can expect to see the three largest macropods (Red kangaroo, Grey kangaroo and Euro or Common Wallaroo) in the one area, and you may well see them in their hundreds.
Emus too are abundant as they scatter beside your vehicle as you travel through mile upon mile of mallee and eucalypt woodland, an area where the sheep farmers failed and the wildlife has survived.
