Soak Protection and Rockhole Recovery is a Ceduna based local initiative dedicated to maintaining the ecological health and cultural value of sites within the Yumbarra Conservation Park, the Yellabinna Regional Reserve and the Pureba Conservation Park.

Participants consist of a growing group of dedicated custodial caretakers & volunteers who clean and advise the cleaning of rockholes! It involves travelling on sandy 4WD tracks to rockholes and granite outcrops, through mallee woodlands, eating bush foods, recording information, cleaning rockholes and learning about the history of ancient country.

The guides are the Coleman family, from the Kokatha Mula Nation, who have been maintaining sacred sites and rockholes all their lives. Continuing Rockhole Recovery will achieve a return of natural health to the sites that have been degraded over time and ensure that their cultural importance and heritage status is preserved for generations to come.

All sorts of people from all sorts of places have joined the trips: they happen every March/April and September/October. The trips run for a week and leave from Ceduna. With every trip, aside from cleaning, other projects have sprouted, including actions, publications, docos, short films and public appeals. We hope for Rockhole Recovery to continue to expand and collaborate with more nations, and more groups.

For more info email: westmallee@gmail.com