Coorong National Park

The Coorong is a national park and lagoon ecosystem in South Australia , 156 km southeast of Adelaide. Its name is thought to be a corruption of the local Aboriginal people's word kurangh, meaning "long neck"; a reference to the shape of the lagoon system. The name is also thought to be from the Aboriginal word Coorang, "sand dune", a reference to the sand dunes that can be seen between the park and the Southern Ocean.

 1.Climate

The park has warm summers and cool, wet winters.Visit in spring, summer and autumn.

2.Sureface

-38 984 ha

3.Flora and fauna

Western grey kangaroos and red-necked wallabies are often seen on the mainland,but the main attraction is the prolific coastal bird life. This includes grey teal, chestnut teal, mountain ducks, black swans, spoonbills, ibises, cormorants and grebes.Australian pelicans, terns and seagulls have established large breeding colonies on the islands where up to 4000 pelicans can be seen in good seasons.Many land birds occur in the dunes, including the orange-bellied parrot,singing honeyeater and bronze-wing pigeon.

  Spinifex,sea spurge,marram grass and two-horned sea rockets bind the sand of the foredunes, with coastal wattles,mallees and sandhill daisies  on the consolidated dunes.Tea--trees, samphires,swampy paperbarks,banksias and grass-tress surround the lagoons.