Game reserves - 2012 opening dates

Chowilla, Moorook and Loch Luna Game Reserves

Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 March 2012, 6.50 am to 8.20 pm

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 March 2012, 7.05 am to 7.50 pm

Saturday 14 April and Sunday 15 April 2012, 6.25 am to 6.00 pm

Saturday 5 May and Sunday 6 May 2012, 6.40 am to 6.00 pm

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May 2012, 7.00 am to 5.40 pm

Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 June 2012, 7.10 am to 5.35 pm

Chowilla Game Reserve

The open season applies to the whole Reserve, subject to the following exclusions for safety reasons, all of the area within 500 metres radius centred upon:

Chowilla Homestead
Shearing shed
Lock 6 on the River Murray
Coombool Outstation (Homestead)
all designated construction sites for the construction of water management infrastructure with the exclusion zone extending 500m from the edge of the site.

Moorook Game Reserve

The open season applies to all the Reserve, subject to the following exclusions.

The western boundary of Sections 474, 475 and 476 Hundred of Moorook, County of Albert, adjacent to the Kingston-Loxton Highway
The area of Wacthels Lagoon bounded by the following coordinates:
- 442748E 6210926N to 443079E 6210458N direct line between two co-ordinates
- 443079E 6210458N to 443268E 6209307N direct line between two co-ordinates
- 443268E 6209307N to 442454E 6209208N direct line between two co-ordinates
- 442454E 6209208N to 441737E 6209450N direct line between two co-ordinates
- 441737E 6209450N to 441377E 6209958N direct line between two co-ordinates
- 441377E 6209958N to 442748E 6210926N direct line between two co-ordinates.

Please contact the DENR Berri office for more information to ensure hunting only occurs in permitted areas.

Loch Luna Game Reserve

The open season applies to all creeks and associated backwaters of the Reserve north of the marked navigation channel of Chambers Creek, subject to the following exclusions for saety reasons:

a 500 metre radius of any house or outbuilding
within 300 metres of any road or bridge
within 500 metres radius of the homestead of Section 706 McIntosh Division Hundred of Cobdogla Irrigation Area.

Note: Access to Loch Luna is mainly by boat – all hunters should be aware of dangerous quicksand in a number of areas.