Carpenter Rocks SA

Survey Point Carpenter Rocks SA
Latitude -37.9063900 (37° 54′ 23″ S)
Longitude 140.3930600 (140° 23′ 35″ E)

About 500m to the NW of the small settlement along Cape Banks Lighthouse Rd a track leads over the sand dunes to a small beach, unfortunately vehicles are allowed onto the beach, destroying the secluded look and damaging the area.

Camp rating 8 there are a few flat spots by the tracks that are best suited to self contained vehicles

Surveys done 3

Blogs, see main page archives:

Anne Beadell Hwy, SW WA, Nullarbor plain 2014

Calder Hwy, Sunset NP, Silver City Hwy, Sturt NP, Strzelecki track, Danggali, Ngarkat, Coorong 2013/14

Victoria, The Coorong, Flinders Ranges, Oodnadatta Track, Newhaven, Mt Augustus, Kennedy Range NP 2024

  • Grey Teal Anas gracilis 1 (25.00%)
  • Rock Dove Columba livia 2 (50.00%)
  • Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites basalis 1 (25.00%)
  • Australian Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris 1 (25.00%)
  • Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus 1 (25.00%)
  • Hooded Plover Thinornis cucullatus 2 (50.00%)
  • Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles 1 (25.00%)
  • Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis 1 (25.00%)
  • Sanderling Calidris alba 1 (25.00%)
  • Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae 4 (100.00%)
  • Pacific Gull Larus pacificus 1 (25.00%)
  • Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus 1 (25.00%)
  • Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia 1 (25.00%)
  • Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii 1 (25.00%)
  • Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus 1 (25.00%)
  • Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens 1 (25.00%)
  • Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus 1 (25.00%)
  • Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti 2 (50.00%)
  • Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris 1 (25.00%)
  • Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens 4 (100.00%)
  • Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Calamanthus pyrrhopygius 1 (25.00%)
  • White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis 1 (25.00%)
  • Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla 1 (25.00%)
  • Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea 1 (25.00%)
  • Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica 2 (50.00%)
  • Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor 1 (25.00%)
  • Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 1 (25.00%)
  • Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa 1 (25.00%)
  • Little Raven Corvus mellori 1 (25.00%)
  • Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis 1 (25.00%)
  • House Sparrow Passer domesticus 1 (25.00%)
  • Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena 1 (25.00%)
  • Silvereye Zosterops lateralis 2 (50.00%)
  • Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris 1 (25.00%)
  • Common Blackbird Turdus merula 1 (25.00%)
2024, where’s Ollie?