Mount Muirhead Lookout

The view from the range

About six kilometres from Millicent on the road over the Mount Burr Range, a generous viewing platform looks out from the flank of Mount Muirhead across one of the South East's great panoramas: the rich black-soil flats around Millicent, the dark grid of pine plantations, the white blades of wind turbines along the ridges, and on the horizon the pale dunes of Canunda National Park and the Southern Ocean.

Mount Muirhead is one of the region's chain of young volcanoes, and in Boandik tradition it is among the ovens of the ancestral giant Craitbul, who moved his camp from peak to peak — a story that also embraces Mount Schank and the craters of Mount Gambier.

Interpretive signs at the lookout explain the forestry industry that surrounds it, and a large car park makes it an effortless stop. Come in late afternoon, when low sun rakes across the flats and the turbines catch the light.