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Lights on the Lake Community Festival
Sunday 8 December 2024: 4 – 8pm Crummunda Park, Wurtulla We are thrilled to advise that Lights on the Lake Community Festival is back once again. This will be the 12th annual event – a fantastic feature of the Sunshine Coast festive season. Keep an eye out for more details in our November newsletter and this website. Save the date. We’ll see you there!
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2025 Currimundi Calendar
2025 Calendar Entries Now Closed! Thank you everyone who submitted your photos. We received lots of wonderful images of our beautiful local landscapes, flora and fauna. We are now busily selecting the photos that will be featured in the 2025 calendar. It is a tough task with so many stunning entries. Once that’s done the calendar will be off to the printer so we can offer the calendar for sale in time to post to friends and families around the world and Australia (or just hang on your own wall and be reminded how lucky we are to live here!). Calendars will be on sale son for $10. We will…
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Clean Up Australia Day 2024
Thanks to the wonderful volunteers who braved the steamy weather this morning to join us for our Clean Up Australia Day event at Little Mountain. 24 volunteers collected lots of rubbish, though pleasing to report general feeling was an improvement on previous years. Container refund scheme still working with (only) 104 drink containers. Only 1 plastic straw (replaced with lots of paper ones), showing state ban is working too. As in previous years Slurpee cups & lids the single biggest problem closely followed by miscellaneous soft plastics. We finished up with our usual sausage sizzle and cold drink. Great to see some regular families returning and good to see some…
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Leacys Bushland Reserve
Have you taken a walk through Leacy’s Bushland Reserve, Currimundi? Do you even know where it is? Leacys Bushland Reserve is one of the last secluded bushland retreats in an urbanized area where walkers can appreciate how the land used to be full of tall timbers, shaded woods, hidden wildflowers and wildlife. Even Google doesn't know much about it!
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Drip! Drip! Drip!
Have you ever wondered, lying in bed on a still night, where that dripping sound outside is coming from? Even when it hasn’t rained? Does the relentless ‘tock’, ‘tock’, ‘tock’ sound of water dripping onto a plastic bucket keep you awake wondering? Well, there’s no need to check your guttering. The culprit is probably a male Striped Marsh Frog (Limnodynastes peroni). This frog is very common. Its habitat stretches from northern Queensland to Tasmania. It’s very adaptable and often found in urban environments. From personal experience, I can vouch that includes Currimundi and more specifically, our back yard. Click on the audio-player arrow to hear the frog’s call. …
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Nesting boxes in local parks
In early February 2013 several CCCG members worked with Sunshine Coast Council Community Nature Conservation Officers Nadia and Rhonda to monitor nesting boxes which had been erected several years ago in local parks. This was an excellent example of a council-community partnership that has achieved excellent results for local wildlife. It was hard work over two days but in the end the team checked 49 nesting boxes in four parks in the catchment – 23 in Sunjewel Environmental park and Creekside, 20 in Noel Burns park and 6 in Crummunda Park. Many local residents stopped to watch, to ask questions, to offer help and everyone said what a great job…
