Fowlers Bay Conservation Park

Open dai­ly.

Vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion, book­ings and park management:

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Ceduna office
Phone: (+61 8) 8625 3144
Email: EPParks@​sa.​gov.​au

Emer­gency contacts:

Med­ical, fire (includ­ing bush­fire) and police emer­gency sit­u­a­tions
Phone: Triple Zero — 000

Police Assis­tance
Phone: 131 444 for non-urgent police assistance

Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice SA – After-hours duty offi­cer
Phone: (08) 8688 3223.

Injured wildlife:

With­in the park
Please con­tact Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Ceduna officeon (08) 8625 3144 or the after-hours duty offi­cer on (08) 8688 3223.

Out­side of the park
Please con­tact a local wildlife res­cue group

Marine mam­mals
If you find a sick or strand­ed marine mam­mal (includ­ing whales, seals, sea lions and dol­phins), please con­tact Nation­al Parks and Wildlife Ser­vice Ceduna office on (08) 8625 3144 or the after-hours duty offi­cer on (08) 8688 3223.

This park has some­thing for every­one all year round.

South­ern Right Whales can be seen through the Win­ter peri­od from May to Oct, on their migra­tion to their breed­ing ground at the Head of the Great Aus­tralian Bight.

The park offers vari­ety of shel­tered and semi shel­tered bays & head­lands from which to camp and fish through­out the year.

Assis­tance dogs are per­mit­ted in most pub­lic places and are there­fore wel­come in South Australia’s parks and reserves. Assis­tance dogs must be appro­pri­ate­ly restrained on a lead and remain under your effec­tive con­trol at all times while in a park or reserve.

As per the dogs in parks and reserves pol­i­cy, if the dog is not an accred­it­ed assis­tance dog, they must be trained to assist a per­son with a dis­abil­i­ty to alle­vi­ate that dis­abil­i­ty and meet stan­dards of hygiene and behav­iour appro­pri­ate for a dog in a pub­lic place. How­ev­er, refusal may be giv­en if the per­son with the dis­abil­i­ty is unable to pro­duce evi­dence the dog is an assis­tance dog with the appro­pri­ate training.

Before tak­ing your assis­tance dog into a park that does not nor­mal­ly allow dogs, it is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed that you con­tact us so we can pro­vide you with the lat­est infor­ma­tion on any poten­tial haz­ards with­in spe­cif­ic parks that may affect your dog. Please con­tact the park via the con­tact details pro­vid­ed under the con­tact tab or con­tact the vis­i­tor ser­vice cen­tre via email or on Face­book.

Access is from Eyre Hwy at two main points:
119km from Ceduna to Fowlers Bay turn off (access via Fowlers Bay town­ship)
147.47km from Ceduna to Coora­bie turn off (access via Coora­bie town­ship)

Roads and beach­es are all sign post­ed.

Access across salt lake from Fowlers Bay to Scot­t’s Beach is a dry weath­er road only. Oth­er roads are sign­post­ed if haz­ards are present.

Dogs are not per­mit­ted in this park.

Dis­cov­er which parks you can walk your dog in on our find a park tool or read 12 dog-friend­ly walks in Ade­laide Parks by Good Liv­ing for inspiration.

There are toi­let facil­i­ties locat­ed at Mex­i­can Hat with­in Fowlers Bay Con­ser­va­tion Park.

Pub­lic toi­lets can also be found with­in Fowlers Bay township.

Keep an eye out for seabirds such as the osprey, white-bel­lied sea-eagle, hood­ed plover, pied oys­ter­catch­er and fiary tern.

Oth­er wildlife to spot includes the south­ern hairy-nosed wom­bat and Aus­tralian sea-lions.

Whales

There has been 29 dif­fer­ent types of whales record­ed in South Aus­tralia. The most com­mon are the south­ern right whale, hump­back whale, sperm whale, blue whale and orca whale (killer whale). Of these you are most like­ly to spot a south­ern right whale along the South Aus­tralian coast.

South­ern right whale
Every year, between May to Octo­ber, south­ern right whales gath­er along the south­ern coast­line of Aus­tralia to mate and calve, before return­ing to sub-Antarc­tic waters to feed.

The south­ern right whale is a large whale which can grow up to 17.5 metres and weigh over 80 tons. The vast major­i­ty of south­ern right whales are black in colour with dis­tinc­tive white pat­terns on their heads that are cal­lus­es formed by small crus­taceans known as ​‘whale lice’. The pat­terns are vis­i­ble at birth and are unique to each whale allow­ing researchers to iden­ti­fy indi­vid­ual whales. 

Flo­ra and fau­na species lists

To down­load flo­ra (plants) and fau­na (ani­mals) species lists for this park, use the ​‘Cre­ate Sim­ple Species List’ tab under ​‘Flo­ra Tools’ or ​‘Fau­na Tools’ in NatureMaps.

• Camp­ing safety
• Parks man­age­ment plans
• Trails SA
• SA Marine Parks

• Impor­tant: Col­lec­tion of fire­wood with­in Nation­al Parks is pro­hib­it­ed. Dead wood plays a vital role in pro­vid­ing shel­ter for ani­mals and adding nutri­ents to the soil.

Fowlers Bay Con­ser­va­tion Park is man­aged by the Yum­bar­ra Con­ser­va­tion Park Co-man­age­ment Board. The Yum­bar­ra Con­ser­va­tion Park Co-man­age­ment Board would like to acknowl­edge the Fowlers Bay Con­ser­va­tion Park is part of the tra­di­tion­al lands of the Far West Coast peo­ple and that it respects their spir­i­tu­al rela­tion­ship with their coun­try. The Yum­bar­ra Con­ser­va­tion Park Co-man­age­ment Board also acknowl­edges the Far West Coast peo­ple as the cus­to­di­ans of the Far West Coast region and that their cul­tur­al and her­itage beliefs are still as impor­tant to the liv­ing Far West Coast peo­ple today.

Co-man­age­ment in South Aus­tralia is a part­ner­ship between the state gov­ern­ment and Abo­rig­i­nal groups to help man­age our nation­al parks that com­bines tra­di­tion­al knowl­edge with con­tem­po­rary park man­age­ment. The co-man­age­ment of parks plays an impor­tant role in advanc­ing the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion process and resolv­ing issues relat­ing to tra­di­tion­al land own­er­ship. The involve­ment of Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple in the man­age­ment of their tra­di­tion­al lands con­tributes to improved cul­tur­al site pro­tec­tion, main­te­nance of tra­di­tion­al prac­tices that may have oth­er­wise been exclud­ed, and improved man­age­ment of parks through the com­bi­na­tion of tra­di­tion­al knowl­edge and con­tem­po­rary sci­ence. Co-man­age­ment arrange­ments are estab­lished by agree­ment with the Abo­rig­i­nal tra­di­tion­al own­ers and are often estab­lished with the deter­mi­na­tion of native title.

A ruined look­out and whale bones on Point Fowler is evi­dence of the area’s whal­ing his­to­ry. Oth­er his­to­ry about and around Fowlers Bay can be found on Fowlers Bay Esplanade/​Seafront.