The Wildlife Centre offers you a great day out for the whole family, where you and your children can get up close to some of Australia’s wildlife.
D’Aguilar National Park is managed by the Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS). For more information visit their web site at www.derm.qld.gov.au. The entrance to Walkabout Creek Visitor Centre, South East Queensland Wildlife Centre and the Function Centre is 12 km from Brisbane city centre via Mount Nebo Road at the beginning of D’Aguilar National Park.
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Walkabout Creek Visitor Centre, D’Aguilar National Park
Go bushwalking and discover remote gorges, sheltered pockets of subtropical rainforest, breathtaking areas of eucalypt woodland and spectacular views to Moreton Bay; all within an hour’s drive of Brisbane.
Start your journey of the D’Aguilar National Park from the Walkabout Creek Visitor Centre. Pick up your free copy of the Queensland Parks & Wildlife Service, D’Aguilar National Park Traveller’s Guide. Find out about picnic areas, lookouts and bushwalking tracks within the Queensland national park. Topographic maps are available for purchase if planning long-range bushwalks or mountain bike rides. Enjoy the views from the virtual lookout or take a walk along the banks of the beautiful Enoggera Reservoir. The Visitor Centre is located at 60 Mount Nebo Road, The Gap.
D’Aguilar National Park offers striking contrasts with its diversity of habitats and plant communities. It is strewn with rocky waterholes, mountain streams, eucalypt woodland expanses and rainforest pockets. The park protects critical wildlife habitat right on Brisbane’s doorstep, providing a refuge from the ever-increasing pressures of urban growth.
The cool mountain tops and forest flats of Brisbane’s D’Aguilar National Park provide a rich and varied habitat for some of Queensland’s wildlife. The cooler mountain climate is ideal for ferns, mosses and beautifully coloured fungi. Great barred frogs and spiny crayfish inhabit the cool mountain streams, while yellow-bellied gliders and short-eared possums are active at night in the tall open forests. Many species of owls also live here, preying on bandicoots, possums and snakes. The range also provides excellent bird-watching opportunities; bowerbirds, wompoo fruit doves and yellow-tailed black cockatoos are often seen or heard throughout the forest.
South East Queensland Wildlife Centre
A trip to Walkabout Creek would not be complete without a visit to the South East Queensland Wildlife Centre. This living showcase of the amazing wildlife diversity of south-east Queensland provides an opportunity for visitors to see local wildlife up close, including a platypus, wombat, rainforest birds, reptiles and nocturnal marsupials. The wildlife centre is open from 9am to 4.15pm every day excluding some public holidays. For admission prices visit www.derm.qld.gov.au or for further information ph 1300 130 372.
Connect with Nature
A wide range of activities are offered by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. The Connect with Nature program is offered in D’Aguilar Nationla Park, Daisy Hill Conservation Park and various parks on the Sunshine Coast and hinterland, Gold Coast and hinterland and Main Range National Park. Connect with Nature offers educational activities for kids and families including bushwalks, local bird watching and spotlights.
The Connect with Nature program includes a curriculum-based school educational program designed for prep to year 12 students, offered at D’Aguilar National Park, Daisy Hill Conservation Park and various parks on the Gold Coast and hinterland.
The program encourages children to appreciate and protect Queensland’s natural and cultural treasures. Wildlife presentations and rainforest ecology walks allow children to experience first hand the amazing diversity of our parks and wildlife.
For more information on Connect with Nature visit www.derm.qld.gov.au or contact Walkabout Creek Visitor Centre on ph 1300 130 372.
Enjoy scenic views at the Rocky Hole, Mount Mee
Photo by: Adam Creed, Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management
Bush Walking Tracks
D’Aguilar National Park has two bush walking tracks, starting at the Visitor Centre: both rated as Class 3 requiring a reasonable level of fitness with ankle-supporting footwear recommended.
Corymbia Circuit
1.5 km return taking approximately 45 minutes
This track winds through a wet sclerophyll forest gully and is quite seep in places
Araucaria Track
The track meanders around the shores of Enoggera Reservoir past hoop pines and loops back on itself around one of the reservoir's peninsulas. Take your binoculars with you as there are some great bird watching opportunities.