Visitor Guide

Lake Macquarie State

Conservation Area

• All native plants and animals and rock

ABOUT LAKE MACQUARIE area. Enjoy the flowering bottlebrush and
formations are protected.
other flowers in autumn and spring in the
STATE COnSERvATIOn AREA
Tiembula Creek wetland. • Fires are not permitted in coastal parks.
The bushland and open space of Lake Free gas barbeques are available at a
Join one of the walking tracks that takes you number of areas.
Macquarie State Conservation Area line
16 km of Lake Macquarie’s foreshore. The to Gwandalan or Summerland Point. A good
place to see powerful owls (if you are patient). • Leave dead wood and rocks where you find
seven locations that form the conservation them, they provide important habitat for
area are an excellent place for fishing and many animals.
boating, picnicking and bushwalking, and AWABA BAY
• Please use rubbish bins where provided,
for observing wildlife – the coastal and lake
Awaba Bay features a short, interesting otherwise take your rubbish with you when
foreshore forest is an important habitat for
walk along the shore of the lake between you leave.
kangaroos, wallabies, gliders and many birds.
Marmong and Alexanders picnic areas. • Please leave your pets at home – they
Awaba Bay, the most northerly section of There’s plenty of opportunity to fish and are not permitted in national parks, state
the SCA, has a foreshore walking track that picnic in this area. conservation areas or nature reserves.
meanders through dry schlerophyll forest,
• Please do not feed native animals as this
past shell middens and takes you to a POInT WOLSTOnCROFT may make them sick.
tranquil wetland where bird and frog calls can
be heard year round. Access to Point Wolstoncroft is by boat to • Drive carefully. Vehicles, including
the headland or via the Sport and Recreation motorbikes, must keep to formed public
WAnGI WAnGI POInT Centre (you are requested to call the centre roads. Unregistered vehicles, including
on phone 1800 819 244 or 4976 1666 before motorbikes, are not permitted.
Wangi Wangi Point has a network of walking entry).
tracks and nearby accommodation is
On the headland you can fish, picnic, enjoy
DISCOvERY PROGRAMS
available at the Wangi Point Lakeside Holiday
Park, phone (02) 4975 1889. a short bushwalk, bird watch (watch for To find out about guided Discovery Activities
whistling kites which sometimes carry out phone (02) 4320 4205 or visit our website:
aerial acrobatics over the forest) or keep an
MORISSET eye open for green sea turtles in the lake.
www.nswnationalparks.com.au
or www.wildwildworld.com.au
Picnic on the lake shore near the quiet
hospital grounds and observe the kangaroos CRAnGAn BAY
(please do not feed the kangaroos as it FURTHER InFORMATIOn
makes them susceptible to disease and acts Crangan Bay is the newest addition to the
park and has some fire trails suitable for NPWS Lakes Office: Blue Wren Drive,
of cruelty). Walk to Woods Point through
bushwalking. A planned lake shore walking Munmorah State Conservation Area,
scribbly gum and red gum forest and watch
track will link Crangan Bay with some other phone (02) 4972 9000
IMAGE: Photo: Susan Davis / OEH.

for rare squirrel gliders. Fish in Pourmalong

Creek or enjoy a picnic at Woods Point new reserve sections, eventually allowing
overlooking the lake. visitors to travel from Nords Wharf around GEnERAL InQUIRIES
the lake to Gwandalan.
Phone 1300 361 967
CHAIn vALLEY BAY
CARInG FOR YOUR nATIOnAL www.nswnationalparks.com.au
Chain Valley Bay has some great short PARKS
bushwalks. Go to the edge of the lake where
Published by the Office of Environment and Heritage,
Tiembula Creek feeds into Lake Macquarie • Please respect Aboriginal sites and places, Department of Premier and Cabinet
and enjoy the bird life in this quiet forested they are protected. OEH publishing number OEH 2012/0254

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