The Whispering Wall and Goldfields
The Whispering Wall, known as the Barossa Reservoir, is about an hour's drive from Adelaide, near the town of Williamstown. The reservoir was built between 1899 and 1903 and has incredible acoustic properties which allows sound to travel from one side to the other. If you stand at one end and whisper into the wall, the person at the other end can hear the words clearly, so you can imagine that children, and even adults, enjoy whispering sweet nothings to each other! We have visited here quite a few times as it is a favourite place to take the grandchildren and it's not far from home. There are picnic tables and nice grassed areas for children to play and if you're lucky you might see some kangaroos and emus. Capacity is 4.4 gigalitres (one gigalitre is one billion litres), which would fill 2,200 Olympic swimming pools. The dam wall is 450 feet from one end to the other The dam is more than 10 metres thick