Location & Description

McCarrs Creek Reserve is located at the junction of McCarrs Creek and Cicada Creek in Church Point.  Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is adjacent and residential development is well removed from the Reserve.  The Reserve occupies approximately 5 hectares.

Walking Tracks & Access

The large parking area allows users to arrive by car.  The Reserve is regularly used for picnicking, dog exercise and boating.

Plants

Vegetation in the Reserve ranges from Mangroves and Saltmarsh on the shoreline, planted Swamp Oak and a small remnant strip of Narrabeen slopes forest along the edge of the Road Reserve.

Animals

The growing Casuarina forest provides a food resource and habitat for Glossy Black-cockatoos.  Numerous holes are present on the ground indicating Long-nosed Bandicoot activity.  Swamp Wallabies would frequent the area.  The remnant Mangrove community provides estuarine habitat for fish and invertebrates.

Special Features

• McCarrs Creek Reserve provides habitat for fauna due to its location adjacent to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
• it contributes to the scenic quality of the estuary, along the roadside and the foreshore of the creekline
• it contains a Mangrove community that improves intertidal habitat and minimises creekbank erosion
• it provides a vegetated area in an estuarine location
• it acts as a stepping stone to aid faunal movement throughout Bayview and Ingleside to the National Park
• it is an educational resource and a contact point with nature for residents
• it provides public access to the waterway for boat users and picnickers
• it allows urban residents to undertake informal recreational pursuits in a bushland setting

Related Info

• To find out more about McCarrs Creek Reserve, download its Plan of Management
• Find out more about Pittwater's amazing Vegetation Communities
• See the native animal species lists for Pittwater