Chowilla Game Reserve
A vast floodplain of red gum, creeks and lignum upstream of Renmark — Riverland wilderness at its rawest.
Chowilla is the Riverland's great wild place: more than 17,000 hectares of floodplain, anabranch creeks, lagoons and the largest stand of river red gum in South Australia. Part of the Riverland Ramsar wetland and the Chowilla floodplain, it's internationally recognised for its ecological importance.
For visitors it offers remote camping, fishing, paddling and the chance to drive or walk among ancient red gums hung with the nests of waterbirds. The country is subtle — flat, sun-struck, immense — but spend a night out here and you'll understand why this floodplain matters so much. Come prepared and self-sufficient; this is genuinely remote.
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- Murray River, overlooking Chowilla floodplain from Headings Cliffs, South Australia.JPG by Kaarenmax19 , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons