Category: Port Stephens

Port Stephens National and Marine Parks

Tomaree National Park, Port Stephens–Great Lakes Marine Park, Worimi Conservation Lands. Watch koalas, go fishing, relax on a pristine beach.

TOMAREE NATIONAL PARK

Tomaree National Park near Port Stephens is a great weekend getaway. Explore the historical significance of Fort Tomaree on a school excursion, or go whale watching, walking to see koalas or fishing and have a tasty picnic lunch by the beach.
Tomaree National Park, jointly managed with Hunter Water Corporation, provides a magnificent backdrop to the coastal towns and villages of Nelson Bay, Shoal Bay, Boat Harbour and Anna Bay. It’s the only place in NSW where you can see outcrops of the acid volcanic rock rhyodacite.
It’s an excellent spot for whale watching and offers a range of scenic walks, including the short Wreck Beach walk through coastal angophora forest and the longer Morna Point walk that comes alive with spring wildflowers. Keep your eyes out for koalas dozing high in the trees.

Contact NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

Level 1, 12B Teramby Road, Nelson Bay
Ph 02 4984 8200
www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/tomaree-national-park

GREAT LAKES MARINE PARK

Port Stephens–Great Lakes Marine Park extends from Cape Hawke near Forster south to Birubi Beach at the northern end of Stockton Beach.
The marine park contains a diverse range of habitats, including beaches, seagrass beds, mangroves, saltmarsh and open waters, which all support distinct groups of plants and animals.
The extensive and diverse estuaries and shorelines include remarkable features such as:
The state's largest:
> drowned river valley (Port Stephens)
> brackish barrier lake system (Myall Lakes)
> intermittently open and closed lake (Smiths Lake)
> Broughton Island, the state's second largest island, provides important habitat for the threatened grey nurse shark and black rockcod
> Cabbage Tree Island (John Gould Nature Reserve), the primary breeding site for the threatened seabird Gould's petrel.
The park offers quality recreational fishing and productive commercial fishing grounds, aquaculture, many popular scuba diving sites, and regionally significant tourism activities such as whale and dolphin watching.

Contact Port Stephens - Great Lakes Marine Park

Taylors Beach Road, Taylors Beach
Ph 02 4916 3970
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/marine-protected-areas/marine-parks/port-stephens-marine-park

WORIMI CONSERVATION LANDS - STOCKTON BIGHT LANDSCAPE

The 4200-hectare Worimi Conservation Lands are managed in partnership by the Aboriginal Traditional Owners, the Worimi People, with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
The land, water, plants and animals within a landscape are central to Aboriginal spirituality and identity. The flora and fauna of the Worimi Conservation Lands provide traditional foods, medicines, and raw materials for a variety of traditional tools and implements.At least 50 plant species are known to be significant in terms of their cultural use associated with traditional tools and implements, food or medicine.

Contact Worimi Conservation Lands

Level 1, 12B Teramby Road, Nelson Bay
Ph 02 4984 8200
www.worimiconservationlands.com

PORT STEPHENS & NELSON BAY