DESCRIPTION
Held at The Forktree Project property in the rural hills above Carrickalinga; Australia’s first International Dark Sky Community.
A 90 minute multicultural guided tour of the night sky with laser pointer and large telescope. Experience a dark night sky that’s close to Adelaide. We are one of a handful of astronomy tours anywhere that routinely includes night sky interpretations from non-Western cultures and from southern hemisphere cultures. Plus the modern textbook interpretations too.
The tour location is accessed from the Whitelaw Road gate (about 100 metres off Forktree Road). It’s a few minutes drive from Normanville and Carrickalinga and Myponga, about 20 minutes from Second Valley, about 35 minutes from the Kangaroo Island ferries, about 40 minutes from McLaren Vale or Victor Harbor, and about 80 minutes from Adelaide city.
*** Weather Permitting ***
Cloud Forecasts are not reliable more than 1 day in advance. We will send a message on the day of your tour to your mobile phone number, to tell you if your tour is weather cancelled or not.
The tour will also be cancelled if there are insufficient bookings to operate.
If your tour is cancelled, you will be offered an alternate date (if possible), or a refund.