General situation of Harrikoff Preservation Park
(Hallett Cove Conservation Park) is located about 20 kilometers south of the heart of Adelaide, leaning against the beautiful Bay of Saint Vincent. The park is a pearl hidden in purdah, and even some locals don't know much about it. Speaking of this, but the story is long, because to start from 600 million years ago, right, you read it right, 600 million years ago!
Hallett Cove Conservation Park is one of Australia's famous geological and archaeological sites and is known for its unique geological features. Over the past 600 million years, many important geography events in South Australia have been clearly documented on the numerous rocks of Hallett Cove. Before ancient times, Hallett Cove was still a vast ocean. After many geological changes, until about 3 million years ago, the Hallett Cove area rose to sea level and began to become land. Hallett Cove's rock and sediment age spans from 600 million years ago to today, in four major periods. These layers of rock formed in different periods are layered together and are layered like cakes, making them a huge living fossil today.
The rugged wave marks on the rocks are said to have been caused by the ancient ocean scour, when the stones were still asleep in the sea.
After 600 million years, it is a magical ancient natural spectacle on the edge of modern city.
The terrain here is still very ups and downs, high and low, forming a staggered landscape.
The famous relic of the park, The Sugarloaf.280 million years ago, was covered with huge ice, and about 270 million years ago, the ice began to melt, forming an ancient glacier melting lake. And the layers of red and white on this Sugarloaf were formed by deposits at the bottom of the ice-melt lake hundreds of millions of years ago.
Around the The Sugarloaf built a circle of trestle, around the Sugarloaf can be carefully watched. Remind you that the hundreds of millions of years of remains are fragile, do not try to climb over the railing to trample on these precious sites.
This amazing The Sugarloaf. can be seen from a lot of angles in the park.
The topmost surfaces of Black Cliff, known geographically as "glacial pavement", are shaped like shaved or muscle-textured rock surfaces that were cut by ice moving northwest for two hundred and seventy nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine years.
The chocolate-colored rocks at the foot of the observatory were formed by the deposition of fine sand and silt 600 million years ago. About 500 million years ago, these deposits were promoted and remolded by "violence" during the orogenic movement, and the crease marks left by these "violence" orogenic movements on the top of chocolate rocks can be seen clearly at the ebb tide.
How do I get there?
Hallett Cove Conservation Park is 20 kilometers south of downtown Adelaide, and self-driving is certainly the most convenient. If you don't drive yourself, you can use public transport if you live near the city center, but it takes a long time and takes about an hour by car. Let's first talk about how to get there by bus, basically by walking or taking the downtown light rail to the downtown train station, then changing to the Seaford train line to the Hallett Cove Beach stop and getting off on about a kilometer's walk.
Adelaide take the bus, you can get on the bus directly to the driver to buy tickets, but it is expensive, and to prepare change ha. You can also buy Metro Card traffic card, as long as you can pay by card on the bus, the fare is automatically deducted from the card, b take a car discount.
Driving is too convenient, just walk Main South Road, without traffic jams can be half an hour. There is free parking on the side of the road, ha, pay attention to the parking signs, the correct parking oh.
How do you play?
If you're just going to see the famous Sugarloaf, for half an hour, go around for an hour and take a photo shoot. If you have a lot of time to spend as much time as I do, it is recommended to see Sugarloaf, first along the treadway and then take the coastal treadway on foot. The trestle is very long, can walk for an hour or two, but remember to walk back as usual, so calculate the time well. Of course, there is a resting place on the way, you can see the scenery, while picnicking. In short, you can make it short or long according to your own schedule.
[化] matters need attention
- Hallett Cove Conservation Park is free and does not require tickets;
- If you plan to go on foot, bring enough drinking water and refreshed snacks on the way;
- Pay attention to sunscreen in summer, with a wide eaves hat and sunglasses;
- Do not trample or climb these hundreds of millions of years of historical sites, oh, they may be very vulnerable;
- If you have a picnic on foot, be sure to carry the garbage with you and throw it in the dumpster.
Author: little fish walking around
