Bardon State School

Ithaca Creek

Convenor: Bardon State School

 

Bardon State School is on the bank of Ithaca Creek upstream from the road bridge at Simpsons Road. It has been the site of many plantings and bushcare efforts over the years, as students adopt the creek during their time at school.

Near the bridge at Simpsons Road is a very large Cheese Tree Glochidion ferdinandi – surely one of the largest in the catchment. Along the creek are several old-growth Waterhouseas Waterhousea floribunda and some deep pools. Water quality is generally good due to the canopy. Upstream from the access point to the creek, opposite the bend of Burnham Road where SOWN members are active, 75 metres south of the bridge, there is some remnant dry rainforest scrub with fairly good diversity, stretching up to Lorward Avenue, and adjoining the Lorward Avenue site.

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Ithaca Creek next to Bardon State School. Photo: Steve Paterson