View from the cultural/fauna walk

The living desert is situated 12 kilometers north of Broken Hilll on Nine Mile Road. The sanctuary contains an arboretum, a cultural/fauna trail and a 'sculpture symposium' all situated in the rocky slopes of the range lands. After recent rains the hills were awash with purple and yellow daisies and many of the plants in the arboretum were in full bloom.

Sturt Desert PeasWe had heard that Chiming Wedgebill could be seen at the sanctuary so decided to try the cultural/fauna walk trail to look for them, the trail leads up the rocky slopes and although we had seen quite a few birds in the car park only Singing and Spiny Cheeked Honeyeaters were seen on the windy slopes, I suspect that most sensible birds would be sheltering in the gorges. As the path lead to the lower parts of the slopes we could hear Chiming Wedgebills calling from below, however we decided to respect the many signs asking visitors not to walk off the paths and continued on to the arboretum where we again heard the Chiming Wedgebills, quite a distance from the path, near to the base of the hill which was also close to the entrance. We decided to search the area just outside the entrance and were finally rewarded with good views of a Chiming Wedgebill running through the grass and another sitting in a Mulga bush.

Living Desert trip list

Information on the Living Desert Park