Tunks Park West, Cammeray - Bushcare Groups

The group meets on Sunday's of the first full weekend of the month from 9am to 12pm.

Dates: February 4, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, August 4, September 8, October 6*, November 3.

Groups meet between February and November, taking a break in January and December.

Meet outside 566 Miller Street, Cammeray

* Meetings that fall on a long weekend or the Boorowa tree planting trip must be confirmed by the Group Convenor.

In the event of rain, call the Group Convenor for updates.

Volunteers are required to wear enclosed shoes, a long sleeved shirt, long pants and a hat. Bring sunscreen and a full water bottle.

Tunks Park is one of North Sydney Council's most striking reserves, it stretches for a kilometre through a gully from Hamilton Reserve down to Middle Harbour’s Long Bay foreshore. The remnant Blackbutt Gully Forest sweeps under the sandstone arches of Cammeray's Suspension Bridge above Quarry Creek hugging the many sports fields and dramatic sandstone cliffs of Tunks Park. The northside of the y shaped- gully extends from Flat Rock Gully in Willoughby Council, the southside is in North Sydney Council.

Tunks Park West is a strip of bushland sitting on top of the gully. Accessed west of the Suspension Bridge opposite the Boulevarde, the Bushcare site backs on to the houses and unit blocks that front Miller Street and the cliffs of the escapement behind.

Tunks West Bushcare Group formed in 1999 propelled by the concern for the health of the bush from a single neighbour. Since this time, the group has grown and with the support of Council's Bushland Team, they have worked hard to reduce the negative impacts of urbanisation on the pristine bushland below by planting and maintaining a buffer of local native plants along property boundaries and by controlling exotic weeds in the good bush. The fruits of the volunteer’s labour paid off in 2017 with the return Swamp Wallabies, now resident. Other wildlife includes Green Tree Snakes, Red Browed Finches and Eastern Toadlets.

Tunks Park is part of the middle Harbour cluster of bushland reserves, an important wildlife corridor and one of two biodiversity hotspots identified in Council’s 2010 Natural Area Survey.

We are always looking for further support, this group arguably provides the best morning tea.