Location & Description

Kanimbla Reserve is located on a spur of the Bilgola Plateau escarpment which overlooks Newport.  The spearhead shaped Reserve occupies 0.4ha.

• View on location map

Environmental Projects in the Area

• Community Action Asparagus Fern Control
• Bushcare Volunteer Group

Walking Tracks & Access

Access to the Reserve is either from the top at Kanimbla Crescent where it is sign posted, or from Hillslope Road. 

The walking track exists as part of a system of tracks in Newport, to encourage the community to use the Reserve not only for access from the plateau to the beach but also as a bush retreat.

• Walking Track Map
• Walking Track Map & Aerial Photo

Plants

The vegetation of Kanimbla Reserve is Newport Bangalay Woodland community grading to Coastal Scrub.  It is dominated by Coastal Banksia (Banksia integrifolia) and Black She-oak (Allocasuarina littoralis), and Forest Oak (Allocasuarina torulosa) is increasingly dominant lower in the Reserve.

Animals

Kanimbla Reserve provides a faunal link between Attunga and the Crown of Newport.  The thick vegetative cover though weed infested in parts provides protective cover.   There are numerous winter-flowering Coast Banksias which provide a valuable resource for many species, including the endangered population of Squirrel Glider.

Special Features

• Kanimbla Reserve contributes to the landscape quality of Newport Beach and provides visual amenity along the Peninsula ridgeline with views to the ocean
• it provides suitable habitat for fauna species in the context of urban bushland in the Sydney Region, including the endangered population of the Squirrel Glider
• it is a significant component of bushland along the escarpment, and acts as a wildlife reservoir and stepping stone to larger bushland areas
• it provides a record of the original landscape and the changes wrought by urban development
• it is an educational resource and a contact point with nature for residents
• it allows urban residents to undertake informal recreational pursuits in a bushland setting and provides an informal bush track from the plateau to the beach

Related Info

• To find out more about Kanimbla Reserve, download its Plan of Management
• View on location map
• Walking Track Map
• Walking Track Map & Aerial Photo
• Find out more about Pittwater's amazing Vegetation Communities
• See the native animal species lists for Pittwater