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To top off the 10 Catchment Excursions on Saturday 3rd December was an Enviro Cruise downstream on a Noosa Ferry.  Our driver and well informed speaker John took us first to the river mouth area to observe the shore birds then on to Settlers Cove for a short guided native […]

Thanks to all of NICA’s members for your continued support this year.  Our office will be closed from Tuesday 20^th December and will re-open on Monday 9^th January.  If you would like to read NICA’s Annual Report here is a link to it on our website; https://noosariver.com.au/resources/

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On 6th August, 50 people headed for the source of the Noosa River where it rises in the Como escarpment, seeping from the plains of the Great Sandy National Park in Cooloola and joined by the sedge and fern lined waters of Teewah Creek.  The Doggerell Trees, Seary’s Creek, Cooloola […]

On Sunday 31st July NICA presented ‘Stories at Sunset’, an outstanding indigenous cultural experience, as part of a 25th Anniversary Landcare Grant ‘Sunshine Creek Wetland and Riparian Erosion Rehabilitation Project’. Local Gubbi Gubbi man Lyndon Davis gave Welcome to Country and told cultural stories and indigenous chef Dale Chapman provided […]

Catchment excursion no. 5 was held on Saturday 9th July at Kinaba Information Centre at the entrance to the Noosa Everglades. The day was organised by NICA and Friends of Kinaba.
Guest speakers were John Olds from Queensland Marine Parks and Steve Price, Principal Ranger Sunshine Coast QPWS, both gave informative […]

Thanks to local historian George Pearce from Parkyn’s Hut Information Centre, he was the highlight of NICA’s Catchment Excursion No. 4 – ‘History of a River Town’ on 11th June. He painted a vivid picture as the led the group to various points of interest with tales of fire and […]