All facilities and cave tours will be unavailable on Sunday 4 August 2024 from approximately 8am until 3:30pm while SA Power Networks complete work in the area. The park itself will still be accessible, allowing visitors to use picnic tables and walking trails.

National Parks and Wildlife Service
South Australia
Bat Cave and Blanche Cave

Bat Cave and Blanche Cave

Date posted: 11 January 2011

This exciting tour is all about bats. From August to April, you can sit in the Bat Observation Centre and watch the fascinating activities of a colony of Southern Bentwinged Bats in their maternity chambers through world-first infrared technology. Also in the summer months, you can watch the bats' spectacular exit flight at dusk. Early risers can see the re-entry at dawn.

The tour incorporates a stroll through Blanche Cave, well known for its cultural history but also an important bat wintering site. You can often see clusters of bats clinging to the ceiling in a deep torpor.

The tour involves about 400 metres of walking and about 30 steps into Blanche Cave. The Bat Observation Centre is wheelchair accessible.

Tour time: about an hour.

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