Tilligerry Habitat
Description
Tilligerry Habitat Reserve is a 9 ha flora and fauna reserve along a sandy foreshore on Tanilba Bay. Phone: 02 4984 5677 FEATURES OF TILLIGERRY HABITAT
Free entry with map available from straw bale Environment Centre. Easy walking tracks on gravel paths and boardwalks. Koala spotting, Scenic swamp mahogany paperbark forest, regenerating heath and woodland, Chorus Creek wetlands, souvenir shop, native nursery, many native birds, native flora (native orchids and bush tucker plants in season).
Guided walks (with fee) on local history, culture and the environment. Occasional koalas, echidnas and bandicoots in the wild,
rehabilitation and other information displays,
tour group catering, toilets etc
VOLUNTEERS WELCOME
Tilligerry Habitat Association is a not for profit, charitable, incorporated association that manages the crown land reserve and staffs the Environment Centre.
Our members volunteer their time to staff the environment centre 7 days a week between 10am and 3pm. They also supervise volunteer work teams on Mondays and Tuesdays. Members and volunteers have worked for this site since 1993 with the goal of preserving, supporting and improving it for locals and visitors.
People from all over the world come to meet an Aussie – and sometimes they see a koala as well. You can help us by volunteering to staff the centre and/or work;
on the site
in the nursery
in the office
as a tour guide
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RECENT FACEBOOK POSTS
facebook.comHave koalas not heard of Health and Safety for goodness sake? These shots were taken today near the East Gate at Tilligerry Habitat. Remarkably, the koala was totally asleep and quite comfortable. If you needed any proof that koalas have a thick layer of cartilage in their bums to enable them to do this trick ... here it is.
This koala was spotted in Gula Park next to Tilligerry Habitat this morning, all clean, showered, and refreshed after the rain last night.
***** Your help is needed **** If you live locally and can spare and bring us ice cream tubs or similar - please bring them to Tilligerry Habitat. This marvellous photo by Becci posted on Tilligerry News and Views shows very well the problem that koalas face hereabouts at the moment. What with the extremely dry weather koalas cannot get the moisture they need from just the leaves, so need to find water from whatever source they can. We will put these tubs of water out along our known "koala corridors" in the Habitat.
Nature is weird and wonderful. This tree in the Habitat mystified us, but it seems that it was struck by lightning a few days ago. Apparently, if a tree is dry it might simply catch fire, but if it is wet, the moisture in the tree boils when it is struck and the tree sort of explodes.
This guy took ages to track down today near the culvert along the bike track but we got there in the end ...
Come along and have a relaxing time. The Community BBQ is on the second Sunday of every month at 5pm (during daylight saving) $8 for members $10 for non-members We supply the rissoles, chicken and sausages - you bring along a side dish or sweet.
*** Join us for our Verandah Cafe day *** Devonshire Tea and scone $5 Cappucino and scone $5 Toasted Sanwiches $3 Special this month Quiche and Salad $7 Milk Shakes / Ice coffee / ice chocolate
Visitors often think that it is easy to see a koala in the wild, but it is surprisingly difficult. Their camouflage hides them well. You may be able to see a koala easily in one specific spot but move in either direction a few meters and they are totally hidden. Take this guy we saw this week as an example, he would be totally out of sight looking from the other side of the tree.
Wow 45C predicted today in the Hunter. Glad to say the cool waters of Tanilba Bay keeps the temperature down a tad for us here. This chap was sensibly enjoying the waterfront breeze near seat #5 today. I think he must have fallen asleep listening to the cricket on the radio as the Poms get slowly roasted in Sydney in more ways than one.
Hot one today. We are lucky having water close to 3 sides of us here at Tilligerry Habitat so it is cooler here than most places. It took the patience and persistence of some good friends from Germany to find the koala near the culvert on the bike path this afternoon.
The koala sitting in the tree at Magpie Bridge today was trying to stay out of earshot of the deafening cicadas. Tennyson once wrote ... "nature, red in tooth and claw" ... so it was at the Habitat this week when our good friend Richard was watching the robin in her nest that had survived the recent bushfire in spite of everything being burnt around her. Even as they watched, a kookaburra came down and seized her chick so totally exposed by complete lack of cover and knocked the nest to the ground. So ended the saga of this brave little bird. All that remains now are some fragments of eggshell in the bottom of the nest. On the positive side, we thank some great folks brought in a baby ring-tailed possum, rescued from the waterfront at Tilligerry Habitat. The little girl is doing well and drinking water. As I write she is awaiting a limousine to take her to a five star private rehabilitation facility at One Mile Beach courtesy of the good people at Wildlife Rescue (WIRES)
Tilligerry Habitat is *** open and still the place to visit *** After the horrible bush-fire yesterday, this male koala looks like he slept through the whole thing near Bandicoot Boardwalk. Lots of people have asked, and yes, the female Robin was still on her nest trying to hatch her eggs this afternoon amongst all the burnt out trees and bushes. it has been a week now, we will keep you posted.
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