Sentences with word «wallum»

Walk through the mirror lakes and wallum heath that front the resort.

Nestled amongst the native wallum on the western side of Fraser Island, Kingfisher Bay Resort's Island Day Spa offers a tranquil environment for you to rest, reflect and relax.

It is also home to vulnerable and endangered wildlife such as the glossy black - cockatoo, ground parrot, koala, red goshawk, wallum froglet, swamp orchid and Christmas bells.

When you're down on the ground, you'll really notice the ever - changing landscape as you move from coastal wallum to woodlands and subtropical rainforest at the island's centre.

Fraser Island has been two million years in the making and combines mangrove forests, wallum heath and peat swamps, eucalyptus woodland, sand dunes, coastal heaths and rainforests into an area just 1840 km squared.

The low «wallum» heaths on the island are of particular evolutionary and ecological significance, and provide magnificent wildflower displays in spring and summer.

The cooler months are ideal for driving along the beach highway, exploring the walking tracks or indulging in a spot of whale watching, whilst in summer the beaches draw keen anglers and, on the wallum heaths, the wildflowers are in bloom attracting the honeyeaters.

You could also spot Sugar Gliders as they trapeze their way through the trees and identify the animals behind the rustles in the wallum or down by the water's edge.

On this walk you'll learn about the link between the animals and plants in this area and look at the vital role fire plays in a wallum community.

Kingfisher Bay is the perfect couples» retreat — offering Hotel Resort rooms with bay views, spa upgrades, or bush outlooks — and all just a stone's throw from Fraser's sunset beach, the beautiful boardwalks in the wallum and the resort's mirror lakes teeming with wildlife.

Set on 150 hectares of natural bushland, woodlands, wallums, gardens, rainforest and a private beach, Palmer Coolum Resort offers the ultimate holiday experience.

Its 400,000 acres are home to eight distinct ecosystems — moving from the mangrove, wallum, and banksia forests of the west and into the subtropical rainforest of the interior, skirting clear dune lakes and bouncing through «wet» and «dry» eucalyptus forests, before finally emerging on the wind - lashed coastal dunes of the expansive eastern beach, is literally a trip through time.