November Outing - Helidon Hills, Sunday 7 November 2021

Helidon Hills, 2007

Meet: Soldiers Memorial Park in Turner Street, Helidon at 9.00 a.m. and carpool from there.  Please email  if you would like a lift.

(toowoombafieldnaturalists@gmail.com)

Activities: Martin is an Environmental Officer with Lockyer Shire Council. He will lead us on an excursion in the Helidon Hills area. Always a favourite with the Toowoomba Nats.

Martin's walk will be in an area of Land Zone 5 (loamy and sandy plains and plateaus), Canopy trees likely to be observed are Baileys Stringybark (Eucalyptus baileyana), Budgeroo (Lysicarpus angustifolius), Smudgee (Angophora woodsiana), Planchon’s Stringybark (Eucalyptus planchoniana), Helidon Ironbark (Eucalyptus taurina), Helidon Stringybark (Eucalyptus helidonica). The understory is quite rich in wildflowers, and unusual species that are only found in the Helidon Hills area within the Lockyer Valley including Woody Pear, a number of Epacrids (heath family), numerous Wattle species, Petrophile (cone bushes), Hakea, Persoonia (Australian Proteaceae), Banksia, Grevillea. This promises to be a very interesting learning experience for our final field outing for this year.

Morning tea will be during our walk, and we will return to an area with facilities for lunch.

What to Bring: The usual – binocs, cameras, field guides, morning tea, lunch, chairs and protective materials, etc., etc., etc.

Please register your interest if you are not a member (toowoombafieldnaturalists@gmail.com) so we can contact you if there's any changes.

Please follow current COVID-19 restrictions 

and stay at home if you have any flu-like symptoms