Leader John 0433 279 771
Meet St Brigid’s, 78 Musgrave Rd, Red Hill
Time 7.00 am
Cost $25
Grade M23
Emerg Off TBA
Come with me to an area that the club has not walked before. We will visit three lovely areas to enjoy some attractive coastal, heath and estuarine scenery.
First, follow flat circuit trails within Coombabah Lakelands Conservation Area which protects more than 1200 hectares of wetland, eucalypt forest, salt marsh and mangrove habitat. It is an important coastal wetland and migratory water bird habitat and is registered in the Ramsar Convention on wetlands of international importance. Also, we will see kangaroos, wallabies and hopefully koalas.
Secondly, after smoko, we will drive to Pine Ridge Conservation Park, which protects one of the last wallum remnant habitats on the Gold Coast, featuring banksia woodland, heath, and paperbark swamp. While coastal vegetation on the Gold Coast has all but disappeared due to urban development, a remaining patch of wallum heath vegetation is protected in this small park. Banksia, boronia and the wallum wedge pea are plentiful as well as bloodwoods.
Lunch will be enjoyed at Paradise Point parklands. Then we can do an easy stroll around the Point to see the end of the Coomera River.