Join us for a Guided Walk through the Park that is best-known as the site of the annual ‘Garden of Unearthly Delights’. This Park was once a despised rubbish dump and a quagmire. Learn about the huge efforts as early as the 1880’s to turn it into a much-loved outdoor venue space, as well as this Park’s role providing air raid shelters in WW2. Wear sturdy shoes for a walk of just over 1.5 km; 75 to 90 minutes duration. Children are very welcome. Dogs are also welcome, but on a lead, please.

A two-hour Guided Walk, learning about one of the best-loved parts of the Park Lands, along the banks of the Torrens, home to a variety of public art works, significant heritage trees, University facilities, many ducks, and much more. Features include the first arboretum in South Australia, the memorial to Forgotten Australians, Peace Park, Angas Gardens, Grundy Gardens and the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden. Wear sturdy shoes for a walk of just over 2km, around two hours duration. Dogs are welcome, but on a lead, please.

Wagtail Urban Farm went out with a bang in the beginning of 2023. After having to leave the site that they tended in Mitchell Park for 10 years, the gardening bug bit harder than ever!

Since then, Carla and Steven have been busily plotting how they would improve their micro-scale, homegrown set up again if they could start from scratch.

“Waggie Two” is just that. Using a northern face to capture as much sunlight as possible, limiting nutrients that leave the property and using every spare centimetre to grow food or habitat, their new endeavour, even in it’s infancy, is already taking shape and showing what is possible on a suburban block!

Come and have a guided tour on Sunday, the 2nd of August and help us wrap up the inaugural Adelaide Climate Action Week down south in Sellicks Beach!

Discovery Walks are designed to connect you with the nature and community and are offered by Port Environment Centre in the cooler months of the year, with a range of walking lengths and locations.

We invite you to join us for a walk to Wara Wayingga - Tennyson Dunes.

Learn about this fragile ecosystem and the valued work of volunteers to educate and protect by restoring natural habitats and minimising threats to the plants and animals that call this place home.

This walk is approx. 5km over a 2 hour period and a good level of fitness is needed.

Initially we walk 30 mins one way to Wara Wayingga - Tennyson Dunes Conservation Reserve where we meet up with local volunteers from the Tennyson Dunes Group to learn about their current program and the biodiversity within the dunes. We return along a different route on dune trails back to Inlet Reserve.

What to wear/bring: - Comfortable walking shoes - Sun protection (hat, suncream, sunglasses) - Raincoat (if wet weather is forecast) - Filled water bottle - Snack/fruit - Backpack or bag to carry loose items - Personal items such as medications eg puffers - Camera (optional)

Participants under the age of 18 years must have a registered ticket and be accompanied by an adult.

Cancellation: We reserve the right to cancel if the weather forecast predicts unsafe conditions for our leaders and the public eg severe weather or thunderstorms – we will notify you with as much notice as possible should this happen.

Please note that

numbers are limited and everyone must book to attend please let us know if you have booked and then are unable to attend please stay home if you are unwell

The Port Environment Centre is seeded by Green Adelaide.

Attendee information may be used for follow up evaluation, in order to assess the longer term impacts of our events. Follow up contact may be made (in the form of a survey) but participation in any evaluation is optional.

Walk, Ride or Drive with Cedric Varcoe and Aunty Angelena Harradine Buckskin on this healing journey to honour our sea kin affected by algal blooms. An algal bloom has been devastating our sea and land kin across the southern coastline. We invite everyone to play a part in carrying A message stick from Warland Reserve in Victor Harbor to Amelia Park Playground in Goolwa to let our kin know that we hear them.

Join Cedric Varcoe, Local Ramindjeri Cultural Leader, and Aunty Angelena Harradine Buckskin, proud Cultural Woman of the Ngadjuri, Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri Nations, on this healing journey across Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri land to honour land and sea country together.

Details of accessibility information and timing to come. At a high level: 9am: Everyone is welcome to gather at Warland Reserve Victor Harbor 9.30am-1pm: Everyone is invited to make their way by preferred means (e.g. walk, roll, run, skate, ride or drive) from Victor Harbor to Goolwa. There will be stops along the way, signage and volunteers to support people to get from start to finish, and to return to their car. 1pm-4pm: Community gathering including a BBQ, music and an open mic at Amelia Park Reserve, Goolwa

This Park has many thousands of regular visitors, but few who know its hidden treasures. Join us to discover the 1914 memorial oak, the breeding grounds of waterbirds, and the history of Park losses as sporting bodies and Government corporations have fenced off or built over many parts of this Park. The tour includes Pennington Gardens West, Pinky Flat, Stella Bowen Park, Creswell Gardens, and Light’s vision on Montefiore Hill

We’ll investigate bush regeneration sites, historical underground water infrastructure, some 20th-century cultural heritage, a ghost story, Medindie’s connection to the origins of BHP, in addition to the popular Ngampa Yarta dog park. Children are very welcome. Also, this is a great walk to bring your dog (on a lead).

Ellis Park / Tampawardli (Park 24) is best known as a venue for soccer and cricket. But it has some hidden remnants of rare native vegetation and is a key part of the Park Lands trail. One of the main features of this walk will be learning what USED to be here and is now long-forgotten.

Meet at the entrance to Adelaide High School on West Tce. Children welcome. Dogs on leads are welcome.