COORONG WILDERNESS LODGE - LOCATION
The Coorong Wilderness Lodge is in the south-east region of the state of South Australia. It is operated by the local Ngarrindjeri people, and is situated approximately 180 kilometres south east of the state's capital Adelaide and 25 kilometres south of the nearest town of Meningie, on a peninsula called Hacks Point, midway along the beautiful Coorong. The Lodge is built on sandhills overlooking the Coorong which is an inland sea of shallow lagoons separated from the breakers of the Southern Ocean by a peninsula of sand dunes called the the Younghusband Peninsula.
A 100 kilometre chain of salt water less than three kilometres wide covering some 47,000 hectares, the Coorong is home to some 230 species of waterbird and shorebird - including 14 protected species and 21 species of seabird. One of the most unique and prolific waterbird habitats in Australia, the Coorong has been declared a wetland of international inportance.
The Coorong's lakes and waterways team with birdlife - white faced herons, pelicans, egrets, swans, gull and migratory birds. There are also abundant numbers of emu, kangaroo, and reptiles as well as fish, particularly the famous Coorong Mullet. The Lodge's Ngarrindjeri owners will guide you towards an understanding of the ways of the Coorong, they will inform, entertain and challenge you. The knowledge passed down by generations of Elders means most when you stand in the place it originated.
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