Coastcare in Action

In the morning this bush echoes to the sounds of a diversity of birdlife including honeyeaters, noisy pittas, rosellas, doves and whipbirds.

Landcare groups are working hard to re-establish the coastal forest you see around you.

The work undertaken by dedicated local bush regeneration volunteers since the late 1980s has reintroduced key plant species. These include coastal banksia, tuckeroo, beach acronychia, coastal cypress pine and the blue flax lily.

This important ongoing rehabilitation continues to improve the habitat here for many native animals. Thanks to these efforts, we can begin to get a sense of what these areas would have once offered to the Aboriginal people that camped here.

Keep your eyes open for the small Superb Fairy-Wrens with their bright blue heads, busy in the undergrowth. Listen out for the distinctive loud whip cracking call of the Eastern Whipbird coming from a thick patch of scrub where they are often hard to see but easy to hear.

Photos: Rosella. Image courtesy K. Stepnell NSW NPWS.
Yellow Robin. Image courtesy Fir0002/Flagstaffotos / Wikipedia.
Eastern Whipbird. Image courtesy Greg Miles / Wikipedia