A Special Place for Jimmy James

Murray River


A short amble from the visitor centre, this living riverbank memorial honours a Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal tracker who could 'read the bush like a newspaper'. He worked with SA police on many tracking endeavours, famously finding a lost little girl in the Adelaide Hills in 1966. Whimsical tracks and traces are scattered around granite boulders.


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3.65 MILES

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3. Rocky's Hall of Fame Pioneers Museum

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4. Angove

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5. Twenty Third Street Distillery

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6. Murray River National Park

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