Koonalda Station is located 18km north of the Eyre Highway, but be careful as the access road is a dry weather road only.
Out here it doesn’t take much to turn the red soil to a slippery slush. Originlly Koonalda Station was a sheep station, which existed in its dry surroundings by pumping its water supply a short distance from the Koonalda Cave.
As recent as 1976, cars and trucks used to cross the Nullarbor on the Old Eyre Highway, which passes just 1km south of the station. It appears that this is as far as many of the vehicles made it to across the vastness and extremes of the desert, and are now slowly rusting away in scrap heaps dotted around the homestead. The dry heat conditios of the desert have slowed their demise, with fires being their biggest enemy. Recently purchased by National Parks, it should be left as you found it, so future generations can experience this forgotten remnant of our history.
