SENIOR RANGER VOLKER SCHOLZ is bending with his arms outstretched, like a surfer riding a wave. "Look at this surface," he says, his hands dipping and rising through the air. "See how it's shaped, how it falls and rolls — it's beautifully done." We're looking not at a piece of sculpture but at a walking track in Deep Creek Conservation Park on the coast south of Adelaide. Nevertheless, for Volker, this corridor through coastal mallee and grass trees has the power of art. "Now here the track gives you a different view," he says a few strides later, pointing down the valley to where the Southern Ocean suddenly appears between two ridges. "That's the beauty of it — you want to keep going, you want to see what's around the next bend."
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