Ghost Mushroom Lane — Attraction in Glencoe

Is this my first one star review? I think it might be.

Only found out about access conditions and cost this afternoon, so booked to go in at 9pm. The site days the pass would be emailed to me and I'd need to show it at the gate - no one was at the gate, no sign of people, and that was good because the pass never got emailed (I had the web page receipt all loaded all just in case).

The site said there were car park areas, and there would be signed walks from those areas - I found the parking areas, but there were no walks that I could find. Not that I looked more than what I could pick up with the car headlights, as, with no other vehicles around, "single person driving through isolated Australian forestry with no mobile reception" is how half Australian horror movies start. Finally, once I found my way out - which, with a straight single lane, you'd think would be easy except I kept thinking I had to have missed a turn somewhere and maybe all the ghost mushrooms were in a different part of the forestry - it was almost 30km back to Mount Gambier as the exit doesn't loop back to where you started, and the posted directions on the track point you back to the airport.

Bear in mind I'm at the very start of the season, and possibly SA Forestry doesn't have anyone up there yet, nor had staff available, and maybe the mushrooms aren't showing up yet - but if that's the case, why allow people to book online for those dates?

All in all, not worth the money paid nor time spent, but I did see a wallaby and 4 kangaroos on my drive, all of which stayed away from my car, so it wasn't a...

We went for the guided tour on 4/6/21 as we were not familiar with the area and thought we better paid for 30 bucks per person for a memorable experience and the long drive from Adelaide.

It turned out that the the money was so well spent. It is quite dark in the forest and u would have come to the forest during the daylight to figure out where fresh mushrooms at their prime time are in spite of the signposts. The extremely young and old mushrooms are not the best for viewing purposes. The tour guide clearly had done good homeworks(e.g.: checking mushrooms) and also took us to a mushroom valley (only for the tour). We saw never-ending glowing mushroom clusters around us after switching off the lights, and the magical moment happened when we looked up the forest and saw the glimmering galaxy (centre of Milky Way) right above us.

It was totally worth the drive and the low temperature at night in the limestone coast.

I didn’t have special cameras to take the glowing ghost mushrooms at dark. The glow u actually saw by ur bare eyes were more bluish to bluish green instead of green in the professional photos. So, go check them out...

Best enjoyed in the company of friends. Also probably safer and less scary than going alone :')

Best to arrive before dark in order to survey the area and for easy parking. Paths are marked quite clearly but do be aware of the uneven ground and tree stump and branch tripping hazards! Best to have a look up ahead when walking as signs marking the paths are a bit far apart. GPS and cell service available in the forest (for me at least). Would recommend waterproof shoes. Once dark, mushrooms and easy to find as the glow with a soft white light in the pitch blackness. If you have a camera (dslr or phone) with adjustable shutter speed, you can take some...