Silver mine at Scott Creek

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At Dan's request, we explored the Silver mine in the Scott Creek Conservation Park today. This is a great walk/adventure for people with young children (say about 5-10 years old). Remember to bring a torch for the tunnel walk!!!

How to get there..

From the city we took Unley Road, Belair Road, past Windy Point, Main Road, through to Coramandel Valley, then Cherry Gardens Road and Dorset Vale Road, which traverses the Park. In the bottom of a gully is where the car park is.

The mine is called the Almanda mine, which after failed copper and ore mining in 1850, a successful silver strike was made in 1868, causing a flurry of activity for a couple of years, resulting in 310kg of silver.

There are 2 parts to this section of the Conservation park. The first part looks at some shafts and an old chimney. Then you cross the road and do the Eys tunnel and creek walk. We added in a hill climb on each side, and had a picnic lunch in the middle to take up about 2.5 hours, but you could do the marked trail in an hour or so.

What happenned

We had a glorious day and the spring flowers and orchids were magnificent. A thunder storm was brewing which made for an interesting sky and the occasional roar of thunder. Animals spotted included koalas, snakes, bearded dragons, sleepy lizards, skinks and something with shiny red eyes at the end of the Eys tunnel. At our picnic we saw flame breasted robins and superb blue wrens.

We stopped at Windy point on the way back as the visibilty was pretty good.

Dan says ...

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