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Length: 1km
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Duration: 1hr
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Grade: 2
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Style: Circuit
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Start: 72 Totten St, Kepnock
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End: 19 Steindl St, Bundaberg East
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Location: Baldwin Swamp Conservation Park
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Closest Town:
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Distance from CBD: 366 km
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State: QLD
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Latitude: -24.86680605
Longitude: 152.3697282
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Sunset Track is a 1km, grade 2 Circuit hike located in Baldwin Swamp Conservation Park Queensland. The hike should take approximately 1hrs to complete.
Summary
Fondly referred to as Bundaberg’s own slice of Kakadu with its lush wetlands, abundant birdlife and fish breeding habitats, Baldwin Swamp provides a range of authentic wetland experiences, right in the heart of the city.
About the region
Part of a string of wetland remnants in the Bundaberg area, Baldwin Swamp Conservation Park is a tiny slice of Kakadu right in the heart of the city. Waterways here provide valuable feeding and breeding grounds for a variety of waterbirds and other wildlife. About 75 bird species have been seen in the park, including magpie geese, jacanas, swamp hens, herons and hardheads.
Paperbark trees, sedges, swamp grass and reeds grow in swampland in the western part of the park. Dry vine scrub fringes the watercourses and open eucalypt forest grows on higher ground. The rainforest is a remnant of the Woongarra Scrub which once extended between the Burnett and Elliott Rivers.
The Bunda people camped on the creek banks long before European settlement. The swamp was named after one of Bundabergs pioneers and the springs provided the settlements first water supply. Bundaberg City Council and the community have restored the swamplands and are re-establishing the original vegetation.
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