Towra Point Nature Reserve

With an abundance of mudflat, fresh water wetlands, mangroves, and sea grass beds, Towra Point Nature Reserve near Cronulla is a haven for rare migrating birds. It's a great spot for school excursions and boating activities.

Towra Point Nature Reserve is a place of many contrasts. It forms the largest and most diverse estuarine wetland complex in Sydney. Representing around half of the remaining mangrove area near Sydney, and most of the saltmarshes remaining in the region, this park is as beautiful as it is fragile and complex. It's listed as an internationally significant RAMSAR site. Be sure to use one of the public moorings if you pull up with your boat and avoid anchoring in the fragile seagrass beds.

With an abundance of mangroves, mudflat, fresh water wetlands, and seagrass beds, the reserve teems with life. It provides breeding, feeding and roosting sites for many threatened and migratory bird species, which makes this reserve ideal for wetland birdwatching. Dogs are not permitted and its critical that migratory shorebirds like pied oystercatchers remain protected. The reserve is surrounded Towra Point Aquatic Reserve with a mix of sanctuary zones and refuge zones.