Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park

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Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park

At Piccaninnie Ponds you can snorkel across the top of The Chasm and peer down into the dark depths below. The crystal clear waters have been slowly filtering through the limestone and forming the Pond's features over thousands of years. The freshwater rising to the surface under pressure has eroded a weakness in the limestone to form The Chasm, with its white walls covered in delicate green algal growth contrasting with the dark depths below.

This same process has formed the large underwater cavern known as The Cathedral because of its majestic white walls of sculptured and scalloped limestone. With visibility that can exceed 40 metres, this is one of the prettiest and most spectacular underwater sites in the Mount Gambier area.

See location map (100Kb PDF)
See The Tattler (3.1Mb PDF)

Contact

For further information or to make bookings, please contact our Regional Office at Mount Gambier:

11 Helen Street
PO Box 1046
Mount Gambier SA 5290
Australia

Phone: (61 8) 8735 1177
Fax: (61 8) 8735 1110