Bird’s-eye view

Bird’s-eye view

A local commercial drone videographer has a new appreciation for the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari after shooting aerial footage along the river, including here in your Adelaide Park Lands.

Harry runs Adelaide Aerial with wife Ann-Marie. They’ve just spent six weeks capturing rejuvenated parts of the river from up above – from the Hills to West Beach – for Green Adelaide.

Nature as art

Nature as art

Have you ever stumbled across words or artworks, created from bark, leaves and the like, in your Adelaide Park Lands? Chances are you’ve happened upon the designs of Adelaide sculptor and installation artist Jane Skeer.

The 57-year-old recently scooped a prestigious Samstag scholarship, so will leave for Glasgow for two years in September. However, she’s hoping others will continue making art from nature in her wake, putting smiles on the faces of passers-by.

Kaurna Heritage Walk

Kaurna Heritage Walk

If you Love your Park Lands you can't help but acknowledge and respect this land's traditional custodians; the Kaurna people who cared for the land for many thousands of years before European settlers arrived here in the 1830s.

APA joined with the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation on Sunday 3 July to get a Kaurna perspective on your Park Lands, from elder Rod O'Brien.

Olympic swimmer backs Park restoration

Olympic swimmer backs Park restoration

For the second time in two years, a South Australian Olympic hero is spearheading a campaign on behalf of a Park that bears her name.

Denise Norton who fought to save Denise Norton Park from the Adelaide Crows, is now campaigning to get Denise Norton Park restored as Open Green Public space. She's called for a new Aquatic Centre to be constructed on a nearby brownfield site.

Five years of servitude

Five years of servitude

Despite declaring a "climate emergency" only weeks ago the State Government has shown it’s still captured by the anachronism of combustion engine motor racing, at the expense of your Open Green Public Park Lands.

Your taxes will be subsidising a four-day festival of carbon emissions each year until December 2026, and paving over even more of your Park Lands.

Star backing for cause

Star backing for cause

An Adelaide Park Lands zookeeper, who’s been raising funds for a Ukrainian animal shelter, has had some star power behind her cause.

Canadian actress Karin Konoval, who played ‘Maurice the Orangutan’ in the Planet of the Apes movies, has been regularly contributing to the fundraiser. As previously reported, Jodie Sheridan, the orangutan project lead at Adelaide Zoo in Park 11, has been campaigning on the sanctuary’s behalf after striking up an online friendship with its founder.

Cemetery night tour

Cemetery night tour

Adelaide has been dubbed ‘the murder capital of Australia’, thanks to a few notorious crimes. So, it’s fitting that the city is home to several ‘dark history’ walks and ghost tours.

As winter sets in, we thought it a good time to check out one such tour – at the West Terrace Cemetery in GS Kingston Park / Wirrarninthi (Park 23).

Shared use paths for pedestrians and cyclists

Shared use paths for pedestrians and cyclists

The City Council is in the process of installing new shared-use cycling and pedestrian paths along the edge of South Terrace, in Carriageway Park / Tuthangga (Park 17) and in Peppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18).

However not everyone believes this is an optimum solution for either cyclists or pedestrians. APA's Peter Lumb puts the case for better, separated bike lanes, including in these two locations.

Picture-perfect at 40

Picture-perfect at 40

Adelaide Himeji Garden is one of the most photographed spots in Your Park Lands. In April, the traditional Japanese garden - in Peppermint Park / Wita Wirra (Park 18) - turned the big 4-0.

To celebrate, we chatted to Nicole Lionnet, APA’s Park Ambassador for Parks 18 and 19, about how best to capture the photogenic spot.

Flooding rains

Flooding rains

The start of winter has provided lovely weather for ducks in Adelaide. And the city’s parks haven’t missed out on a soaking.

Parts of the southern Park Lands were underwater on Monday after the CBD copped 43mm of rain – around 60 per cent of the average June rainfall. Elsewhere, the new $13 million, 3.2ha wetlands in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) were also put to the test.