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  > Bushcare Groups > Lower Witton Ck - Indooroopilly Canoe Club

About us

Working on hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the last couple of years the Indooroopilly Canoe Club has become involved with bush care. A small group of club members has been active clearing our site from weeds and replacing them with native plants. The transformation is amazing.

 

We have received assistance and guidance from Habitat Brisbane, and intend to continue to remove feral plants and trees from our site and replace them with indigenous varieties.

 

There is plenty of work left to do, but we are quite proud of our achievements.

 

We always enjoy additional activities outside our working bees. In 2002 our little  group participated in a Food for Wildlife planting project, and we are regulars during Clean-up Australia Day events.

 

 

It's definitely the best view in town during our working bees!

 

 

 

Best View in town

 

 

Hibiscus heterophyllus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As we are situated at the mouth of Witton Creek and alongside the Brisbane River, our site is different to others within the Witton Creek Catchment. We planted native hibiscus and frangipani, dianellas and lomandras. You find melaleucas, acacias, eucalypts and casuarinas on our site, but we also have mangroves along the banks of creek and river.

 

Not only geese visit us, but also cormorants. And crabs, catfish and even sharks are part of our natural environment.

 

The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen the mid-estuary location of the Indooroopilly Canoe Club as one of three points for the Brisbane River Automated Monitoring Project.

 

Sensors are installed which measure turbidity, salinity and temperature every 15 minutes. Results may be influenced by downstream events as this Brisbane River site is tidal.

M. Pickles checking equipment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Pickles checks water monitoring equipment

 

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