The Bubbler and Blanche Cup

Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park, on the Oodnadatta Track.
The entrance to the park is about six kilometres south east of Coward Springs to these natural artesian springs. Mound springs are places where the underground water of the Great Artesian Basin (the world's largest aquifer) reaches the earth's surface. The mound is formed by the dissolved salts left by the evaporated water. It is quite an odd thing to realise that you are in the driest part of the driest state of the driest continent in the world, and yet you are walking on an enormous "underground sea!"
Hamilton Hill, an otherwise flat landscape, is a large extinct mound spring that indicates much higher flows from mound springs in the geological past.Read more