NORTHERN TERRITORY
ANANGU COUNTRY
Gaze at Uluru Beyond the Field of Light
Begun as a temporary art installation, now an unmissable part of the Uluru experience at night, Field of Light is the work of artist Bruce Munro. It consists of 50,000 poppy-like stems topped with lit, frosted glass, with Uluru as a backdrop. It's known as 'Tili Wiru Tjuta Nyakutjaku' by locals, which means 'looking at lots of beautiful lights'.
SEE IT: Advance bookings through your hotel or Yulara Visitor Centre are essential.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
NGARRINDJERI COUNTRY
Seethe Salty Seascapes of Coorong National Park
On the Limestone Coast, the mesmerising Coorong National Park is a fecund lagoon landscape curving along the coast, reaching 145km from Lake Alexandrina to Kingston SE. It's a complex environment of soaks, saltpans, stinky inlets, sea mists and lonesome fishing shanties, separated from the sea by the dunes of the Younghusband Peninsula. More than 200 waterbird species live here, including black swans, wandering, a 1976 film about a young boy's friendship with a pelican, and the 2019 remake, were filmed here. Meningie is the Coorong's northern gateway and service town, but Kingston SE, on the Coorong's southern fringe, is more interesting: it's a hotbed of crayfishing activity, with a summer seafood festival, plus one of Australia's ‘big' tourist attractions, Larry the Lobster. Or, soak up the Coorong vibes at a bush campsite within the park.
