ROCK SOLID
IF YOU GREW UP IN AUSTRALIA and you had a swimming pool in your backyard, chances are you were a pretty popular kid, especially come summertime. Ben Kilsby knows the feeling, although the appeal of his childhood home was less traditional swimming pool and more cavernous sinkhole.
Ben grew up on a sheep property about 10 minutes from Mount Gambier on South Australia’s Limestone Coast. His brother Graham runs the farm, the fourth-generation Kilsby to do so; but he is the first to turn the ‘backyard pool’ into a tourist attraction.
A 65-metre-deep limestone cavity, Kilsby Sinkhole is a jaw-dropping testament to nature’s mysterious and mesmerising ways. It is also a world-renowned dive site, with snorkellers, freedivers and open water-certified scuba divers invited to experience what lies beneath.
What they find is otherworldly.
