Talisker Conservation Park

A mine in the bush

Talisker Conservation Park sits adjacent to Deep Creek Conservation Park near the southern tip of the Peninsula, and protects 212 hectares of bushland centred on the ruins of the Talisker silver-lead mine - a Cornish-style mine that operated through the 1860s and 1870s and gave the now-vanished town of Silverton its reason for existing.

The interpretive trail

A short, well-signed loop trail (about an hour return) leads from the carpark through the bush and past the surviving mine ruins - the chimney stack, engine house foundations, miner's cottages and adits. Interpretive signs along the trail tell the story of the mine and the Cornish miners who worked it.

Wildlife

The park sees the same suite of Fleurieu species as Deep Creek next door - western grey kangaroos, echidnas, possums, and a long list of bushland birds.