Picnic for Nature, Tomaree National Park ~ connecting beach, bush and your backyard
October 20 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Join us in Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Tomaree National Park for a family-friendly picnic connecting the beach, bush and your backyard.
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, in partnership with the Friends of Tomaree National Park, the National Parks Association (Hunter Branch), and EcoNetwork Port Stephens, invite you to a community picnic to celebrate Tomaree National Park turning 40 years since park gazettal.
Date: Sunday 20th October 2024
Time: any time from 10:00am — 2:00pm
Location: Iris Moore Reserve
8 Birubi Lane, off Morna Point Rd, Anna Bay
Cost: Free
Come and join us for a family-friendly picnic. There’s loads happening.
- Activities, workshops and stalls — connecting the beach, bush and your backyard.
- Make a bee and insect hotel or small or large bird box (low cost and pre booked)
- See a native bee hive in action
- Explore the Tomaree plants that encourage native bees, birds, beetles and bugs for your garden, and you may like to buy some Tomaree plants also
- Find out what’s in a frog hotel
- Participate in planting a few local coastal natives near the lookout then visit to see them grow
- Fashion clay animals or make some hand prints with national park Discovery & Worimi rangers
- Enjoy a guided post burn walk over the Fishermans headland (pre book)
- Meet the Sea Shelter team with fun activities exploring and caring for marine life
- Explore the nearby high tide rocky shores of the Tomaree Coastal Walk
- Pack a morning tea or lunch, bring a chair or rug, enjoy your picnic, or pick up a sausage sizzle and coffee — and be sure to pick up a little nature quiz booklet to keep the kids interested during your picnic!
- And don’t forget to REGISTER BELOW to go in the draw for a magnificent prize or two.
Watch this space for more information about the activities, workshops and stalls.
Iris Moore has a large grassy area with covered picnic tables and on-site parking, as well as a wheelchair accessible ramp right up to the impressive ocean lookout. Alternative parking is nearby at the Scout precinct, Robinson Reserve or Fishermans Bay.
Birds, bees, butterflies and beetles love our Tomaree plants.
Get advise about which plants attract wildlife and there are some plants for sale too!
Some activities are pre booked with multiple times throughout the day
Make your own wildlife home – a bee and insect hotel, or bird box ~ for little or larger birds
Explore Fishermans Bay headland on a guided post burn walk!
Be in the draw for some GREAT PRIZES, register your interest below in the Picnic for Nature
and and receive an update with all that is happening nearer the event~ including when bookings open to make wildlife homes. Here’s just a sample of our wonderful prizes.
Delicate Silvereye with a gahnia seed, superbly captured by Mat Spillard Photography.
With such a fine beak, unlike those of finches, we are curious as to how they use the seeds. A story yet to be told!
Thank you Mat for this wonderful, framed, 10cm x 8cm print. Someone will be a very lucky winner.
This moody aerial perspective of the iconic Tomaree Headland and Zenith Beach, with Yacaaba Headland in the distance was captured by National Parks & Wildlife Services’ Johny Spencer.
Thank you NPWS for this framed print — another very lucky person will enjoy this prize.
Win a voucher and you’ll be in for a treat when you select one of the delights from Readers Retreat.
A truly wonderful eclectic collection of books, cards and artworks!
Living and working on Worimi Country
Register your interest
Register your interest in the Picnic for Nature
Organised By:
Friends of Tomaree National Park
Email: portstephens@npansw.org.au