Barbara Martin photography visits Maslin Beach to share more scenery from within the Willunga Basin. Barbara Martin | Maslin Beach Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode. Load More

"War...whoa whoa whoa what is it good for." War memorials can never replace those who have sacrificed their lives for us. All we can do is pay tribute by remembering them. This is Willunga Basin Photography's tribute page to our fallen soldiers. War Memorials Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode. Mclaren Vale War Memorial Blewitt Springs War Memorial Aldinga War Memorial

A semi rural district, with sweeping views of wineries and their vineyards, it's a great place for a leisurely drive. Blewitt Springs Where is Blewitt Springs? Blewitt Springs Heritage Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode. Bus Parking Only Blewitt Springs Reserve

A link page to the highlights of what Willunga Basin Photography has to offer. It is a great starting point to start exploring the site in it's entirety. Portfolio Free Updates Willunga Basin Collection Photos focused on the Willunga Basin Beyond the Basin Collection Photos from Beyond the Willunga Basin Guest Photographer: Barbara Martin Photography

Community Events Ride the Fluerieu drops in on the Opal Aged Care Centre at Aldinga Beach

A collections of photos from Melbourne Victoria. Aldinga walk around map Melbourne City Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode. Yarra River On the gas Early morning peace MCG from the Sky Deck 7/11 on the rise MCG from the Sky deck Caught on CCTV Melbourne City WTF???

Whites Valley, was the original community hub in Aldinga and eventually named after the flour mill owner Samuel White. His now legendary flour mill, brought the world to the Willunga Basin. The Whites Flour Mill as it was known to be called, was responsible for bringing world trade to the Willunga Basin. Whites Valley Whites Valley Map Whites Valley Heritage Samuel White 1839, Samuel White arrives at Port Adelaide, age 20. Hundred of Willunga He buys country land in Adelaide County district C, later defined as the "Hundred of Willunga". White names the property Dorset Farm after his home county in England. More Info: Hundred of Willunga link at bottom of page in "expanded" mode. Samuel White 1869 Samuel White's wife Hannah dies. 1889 he remarried, had a son who died in his infancy. 1899, Samuel White dies at the age of 80 years after living a life so productive, they named the valley after him. Salute! Samuel White 1839, Samuel White arrives at Port Adelaide, age 20. 1/14 New Dawn I deliberatly over-saturated the colours on th picture because it let me. The colours of the basin are endless. Butterworth Flour mill The Butterworth Flour Mill ruins was one of the flour mills that gave the area a financial backbone to build on. I was at this location at 5:30am waiting for the moon to line up with the flourmill, things we do! Whites Valley of the Giants The Tour Down Under was a spectacle to be seen rolling through the hills of Whites Valley. Whites Valley Formerly a wheat farming belt, the Willunga basin still has some wide open spaces that is used for growing hay. This was one of my first ever photos of the area. Layers I love this white house nestle in the vines Whites Valley 2 The wide open space in this picture is a reminder of what Whites Valley used to be. Prime wheat producing land. Colours of the Basin Crank the saturation and the colour that pop are amazing. You cant do this with alot of pictures but in the basin the colours are amazing New Dawn I deliberatly over-saturated the colours on th picture because it let me. The colours of the basin are endless. Butterworth Flour mill The Butterworth Flour Mill ruins was one of the flour mills that gave the area a financial backbone to build on. I was at this location at 5:30am waiting for the moon to line up with the flourmill, things we do! Whites Valley of the Giants The Tour Down Under was a spectacle to be seen rolling through the hills of Whites Valley. Whites Valley Formerly a wheat farming belt, the Willunga basin still has some wide open spaces that is used for growing hay. This was one of my first ever photos of the area. Layers I love this white house nestle in the vines Whites Valley 2 The wide open space in this picture is a reminder of what Whites Valley used to be. Prime wheat producing land. Colours of the Basin Crank the saturation and the colour that pop are amazing. You cant do this with alot of pictures but in the basin the colours are amazing New Dawn I deliberatly over-saturated the colours on th picture because it let me. The colours of the basin are endless. Butterworth Flour mill The Butterworth Flour Mill ruins was one of the flour mills that gave the area a financial backbone to build on. I was at this location at 5:30am waiting for the moon to line up with the flourmill, things we do! Whites Valley of the Giants The Tour Down Under was a spectacle to be seen rolling through the hills of Whites Valley. Whites Valley Formerly a wheat farming belt, the Willunga basin still has some wide open spaces that is used for growing hay. This was one of my first ever photos of the area. Layers I love this white house nestle in the vines Whites Valley 2 The wide open space in this picture is a reminder of what Whites Valley used to be. Prime wheat producing land. Colours of the Basin Crank the saturation and the colour that pop are amazing. You cant do this with alot of pictures but in the basin the colours are amazing New Dawn I deliberatly over-saturated the colours on th picture because it let me. The colours of the basin are endless. Butterworth Flour mill The Butterworth Flour Mill ruins was one of the flour mills that gave the area a financial backbone to build on. I was at this location at 5:30am waiting for the moon to line up with the flourmill, things we do! Whites Valley of the Giants The Tour Down Under was a spectacle to be seen rolling through the hills of Whites Valley. Whites Valley Formerly a wheat farming belt, the Willunga basin still has some wide open spaces that is used for growing hay. This was one of my first ever photos of the area. Layers I love this white house nestle in the vines Whites Valley 2 The wide open space in this picture is a reminder of what Whites Valley used to be. Prime wheat producing land. Colours of the Basin Crank the saturation and the colour that pop are amazing. You cant do this with alot of pictures but in the basin the colours are amazing New Dawn I deliberatly over-saturated the colours on th picture because it let me. The colours of the basin are endless. Butterworth Flour mill The Butterworth Flour Mill ruins was one of the flour mills that gave the area a financial backbone to build on. I was at this location at 5:30am waiting for the moon to line up with the flourmill, things we do! Whites Valley of the Giants The Tour Down Under was a spectacle to be seen rolling through the hills of Whites Valley. Whites Valley Formerly a wheat farming belt, the Willunga basin still has some wide open spaces that is used for growing hay. This was one of my first ever photos of the area. Layers I love this white house nestle in the vines Whites Valley 2 The wide open space in this picture is a reminder of what Whites Valley used to be. Prime wheat producing land. Colours of the Basin Crank the saturation and the colour that pop are amazing. You cant do this with alot of pictures but in the basin the colours are amazing

Barbara Martin's personal favourite photos from her own collection Barbara's Favourites Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode.

Conservation and sustainability are at the forefront of the Willunga Basin community's agenda. Willunga Basin Conservation The unsung heros of the Willunga Basin are the conservationists who are toiling away at preserving the natural wonder of the basin. Starting from the Dreamtime stories of the indigenous peoples, to the conserving areas like the Aldinga reef and scrub. Aldinga Conservation Park Things to do Creating the Park Freinds of the Scrub Lot50-Kanyanyapilla Lot50-K Cultural History Ecological History Willunga Basin Walking Trail Walking Trail Environ Center Arts/Events/more Aldinga Reef Sanctuary Marine Parks Birds SA Aldinga Wikipedia Aldinga Reef Sancuary Aldinga Reef Sanctuary Tjilbruke Dreaming Tjilbruke Dreaming story The tale of Tjilbruke's journey down the east coast of Wongga Erlo/Gulf St Vincent is the best known of all Kaurna Dreaming stories, and has become a symbol of renewal of the Kaurna culture, although it was first recorded from Ngarrindjeri sources by Tindale and later Ronald and Catherine Berndt. It was recorded by Tindale over a period of many years up to 1964, but it was not until 1987 that he published the most complete version hitherto published, as The Wanderings of Tjirbruki: a tale of the Kaurna People of Adelaide. The story starts with an emu (kari) hunt by three one men, Kulultuwi, Jurawi and Tetjawi. They were all nephews of Tjilbruke, but Kulultuwi had a special relationship to his uncle, as he was the son of his sister, and known as his nangari; the other two were his half-brothers. Tjilbruke was responsible for Kulutwi, as an uncle as well as a father, to help him grow up correctly and do the right thing. While the young men went hunting in the Tarndanya (Adelaide) area, across Mikkawomma (the plains) to Yerta Bulti (Port River estuary), driving the birds up Mudlangga (Le Fevre Peninsula), Tjilrbuke went fishing at Witu-wattingga (the Brighton area). After finishing his fishing, he set up camp at Tulukudangga/Tulukudank (Kingston Park and then started tracking an emu southwards. When Kulultuwi returned to the area, he found himself tracking the same emu as his uncle, which he was forbidden to do. However he killed the emu, and Tjilbruke, although initially angry, forgave him when he gave him some of the emu meat. (In one version of the story, although Kulultuwi was not supposed to have killed the kari ahead of his uncle, Tjilbruke gave him permission to do so, as long as he gave him some of the meat.) While Kulultuwi was cooking the emu meat over a fire, Jurawi and Tetjawi killed him with their spears, as punishment for his breaking the law of the clan. The brothers took the body to their clan campsite at Warriparri (Sturt River) and told them the story, and they started to dry the body with smoke, as custom dictated. After Tjilbruke found out, he was very upset, and speared the two nephews to death (in retaliation, applying the law, being a man of the law), before carrying Kulultuwi's body to Tulukudangga, where an inquest and ceremony to complete the smoking of the body was held. The story goes on to tell of how six freshwater springs were created by Tjilbruke's tears, as he carried the body of his dead nephew from Warriparri across to the coast and southwards past Aldinga Beach and onto the west coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula to Rapid Bay. The Dreaming includes locations in several geographic areas: the Adelaide Plains, the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the south coast at Rosetta Head (The Bluff) near Victor Harbour, and also in the Adelaide Hills at Brukunga; so it takes in Ramindjeri and Peramangk country. After Kulultuwi's body had been smoked and dried, Tjilbruke picked up the body and carried it firstly to Tulukudangga/Tulukudank. Here some versions of the story diverge slightly; one says that he wept at this point and his tears created this spring, while another says that Tulukudangga was an existing spring at that place. From Tulukudangga, Tjilbruke carried Kulultuwi's body all the way down the eastern side of Gulf St Vincent and onto and down the west coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula. At sunset every night of his journey Tjilbruke cried over his nephew's body, and his tears transformed into freshwater springs at six locations: Kareildung (Hallett Cove) Tainbarang (Port Noarlunga) Potartang (Red Ochre Cove, near Moana Beach) Ruwarunga (Port Willunga) Witawali (Sellicks Beach) Kongaratinga (near Wirrina Cove, or Yankalilla) He arrived at a cave (perki) at Rapid Bay, near Cape Jervis, and then emerged from underground at Wateira nengal (Mount Hayfield) and created yellow ochre. He walked on to Lonkowar (The Bluff/Rosetta Head, in Ramindjeri country), near Victor Harbor, where he killed a grey currawong, rubbed its fat onto his body and tied its feathers onto his arms, before transforming himself into a glossy ibis (or other wading bird; in some sources, a blue crane) as his spirit left his body. His body became the pyrite outcrop at Brukunga. Saddened by these events Tjilbruke decided he no longer wished to live as a man. His spirit became a bird, the Tjilbruke (Glossy Ibis), and his body became a martowalan (memorial) in the form of the baruke (iron pyrites) outcrop at Barrukungga, the place of hidden fire (Brukunga - north of Nairne in the Adelaide Hills). Tjilbruke was a master at fire-making. Unearthly Macro Return to Beyond the Basin gallery Aldinga walk around map Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode. Unearthly Ant World Beautiful Redback Minding her own business General Meeting Run to the Shelter Fauna Fauna Icons of Aldinga Meanwhile, in Aldinga Beach... Timeless Views 3 Icons, One picture Just Passing Fresh Catch Nature's Paradise Spectacular Staring Contest Aussie Aussie Aussie! 3 for Free

Aldinga Beach is a pristine beach which harbours a reef sanctuary zone and the Aldinga Conservation Park. It is a nature lover and photographers dream. Aldinga walk around map Aldinga Beach Aldinga Beach Map AB Heritage Page Please click pictures to access gallery in either expanded or full screen mode. Love This Kid Summoning The Demons Love this kid! The Moon Powering On the Espy Pure Love Colours of the Basin The Reef Hills of Sellicks Beach Snapper Point Boardwalk Nature's Playground Why Did the Kangaroo Cross the Road? Lower Esplanade Tour Down Under Nature's Paradise Bird of Prey