Sugar Loaf
This ares is known as one of Australia’s most outstanding geological and archaeological sites, recording an Australian ice age some 280 million years ago and providing a treasure trove of more than 1,700 Aboriginal artifacts.
Magnificently developed glacial pavements along the northern cliff tops are recognised as the best record of Permian glaciation in Australia and being of worldwide significance…........
Hallett Cove, SA
South Australia
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DawsonImages
beautiful formation, reminds me over areas of Utah
Hans Kawitzki
great sand/rock formation reminds me on Lake Mungo,where excactly in SA are these sites ??
Globalphotos
20 mins south west of Adelaide :) 200m from the beach
Rich Gale
super work well done.
Rich.
Nick Johnson
What a strange, interesing photo. Very impressive!
MiMiDesigns
I know this well. One of SA’s best kept secrets. Taken in the winter, late afternoon?
Globalphotos
Taken this September, Spring ….sunset :D Amazing place !!
Globalphotos
LostBoy1
Looks like a big mutant termite nest!
Globalphotos
LOL …........
Craig Watson
As a young child in the mid to late sixties, friends of my parents had a shack, yes, a shack, along the foreshore here at Hallett Cove. We used to visit them and climb, clamber, slide down and rample over these formations with reckless abandon… How BLOODY stupid we were!!!
Thankfully, these shacks were torn down not long after. Mind you, there has been significant urban development within a stones throw of the amphitheatre within which this “Sugar Loaf” is located. This area is now a Conservation Park!
A little over a decade ago, my wife did a year long course on Geology at Marden Senior College in Adelaide, South Australia. As part of this course, we paid visit to this wonderful place, with a very different eye. I took many, many photos of the area which Jan used in her “project” after the journey. Her teacher was given them for use in the following years and remain with the college after this wonderful teacher died a few years ago.
On the clifftops to the North West of this photo are some wonderful glacial striations to see…for those who live in or visit SA that haven’t been there, it is a MUST SEE place to go.
This photo, and ‘Globalphotos’ other shot really shows the wonderful colours and geology of this very interesting place that is now preserved for future generations to appreciate.
midzing
beautifully captured,,, well done
Globalphotos replied
Thank you :)