Black Swamp

A wetland with cultural depth

Black Swamp sits on Ngarrindjeri Country east of Goolwa - a heritage-listed wetland with small waterfalls fed from the Currency Creek catchment, prolific waterbird populations, and Aboriginal scar trees where bark canoes were cut by Ngarrindjeri people in the pre-contact period and beyond.

What you'll see

Ducks, swans, ibis, herons, freshwater fish in the creek, and the marked scar trees themselves - eucalypts with the distinctive elongated wound-marks where strips of bark were removed. A culturally and ecologically rich half-hour stop.