Coorong National Park

South-east of Adelaide, the Coorong is a long, narrow lagoon that runs for more than a hundred kilometres behind a wild dune peninsula, separated from the Southern Ocean by the Younghusband dunes. A place of shallow salt water, samphire flats and vast flocks of waterbirds - pelicans above all - it was the setting for the film Storm Boy and remains one of the most important wetlands in the country. Canoe the still lagoon, walk across the dunes to the empty surf beach, or simply watch the birds at dusk. Flat, silvery and immense, it is a landscape of water and sky.