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Umpherston Sinkhole

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Umpherston Sinkhole is to experience one of the most stunningly beautiful marriages of man and nature.

The sinkhole is no ordinary hole in the ground, It is a natural wonder in its own right, forged from millennia of acidic groundwater eroding the porous Gambier Limestone.

An Australian icon of the most bazaar type, the Sinkhole was established as a recreational garden for the people of Mount Gambier and visitors to the region to enjoy.

You will discover a mix of philosophies at the Sinkhole: the Enlightenment ideal of the ordered garden (carefully tended hedges, raked gardens) blending with the Romantic notion of nature in its untamed beauty (the water-etched limestone, the jaw-dropping scale of the sinkhole itself).

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*Be dazzled by the water features and the enormous cascading vines that conceal the caverns beneath. *Feed the semi-tame possums that come out at dusk. *Relaxing amongst the greenery or learn more about the Sinkholes interesting past.

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Jubilee Highway East
Mount Gambier SA
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