A team of eleven spent a week in June upgrading the popular Pretty Point Campground at Hiltaba Nature Reserve. Gawler Ranges National Park Rangers: Lindsay Brown, Sarah and Don and Nature Foundation volunteers: John Ovenden, Coral Johnson, Ian Pope, Chris and Maria Reed and generous sponsors: Greg Limbert, Sonya Coleman and Alison Hastings, put in long days completing the planned upgrade.

Over seven days the energetic team created a new entry and exit loop, delineated sixteen campsites, revegetated eroded bare patches by scarifying and seeding the area, planted 40 trees, resited fire rings, installed new signage and more than 300 recycled wooden fence post bollards and realigned the entry to the Betty and Bob Lewis Walking Trail!

A big thank you goes out to Greg and Sonya for donating the use of their bobcat for over twenty hours of digging post holes and finishing off the ground surface, and for a truckload of cement mix. Also to Ranger in Charge Lindsay Brown for supplying over thirty trees and native seeds of local provenance, plus securing a grant to lease a tractor with a scarifier to rip the revegetation areas. And of course to the Nature Foundation volunteers too!

Fineys Contracting from Wudinna also graded the road into Pretty Point and the loop road through the campground as well as creating the much needed water run offs.

We're also grateful to the Gawler Ranges National Park staff for planning the upgrade and collecting the seed prior to the event.

Come and check out the upgraded campground! Book now online!