Currumbin
Currumbin is a photographer's paradise with spectacular views north and south. The gentle surf and small rock pools make the area's beaches popular with young families. Try your hand at a spot of fishing along the picturesque Currumbin Creek.
A multiple winner of Queensland's cleanest beach award, Palm Beach lures agile locals looking to stretch their muscles along golden sands and cool off in sparkling warm waters. After a busy morning workout at the beach, sit back and quench your thirst at the Surf Life Saving Club.
Currumbin has a unique character with respect to other beachside suburbs – it's where the bush, the vegetated littoral rainforest areas to the west, meet the beach, an area of vegetated coastal dune areas and parkland. Elephant Rock and Currumbin Rock enclose a popular surfing beach.
To ensure this unique character would be further enhanced through public works and upgrades in the area, extensive consultation was undertaken with property owners and interested community groups to develop a master plan which included works in the parkland along Pacific Parade and streetscape improvements along the western side of Pacific Parade.
Stage 1 - Completed
Includes a shared bikeway and pedestrian walkway, post top pathway lighting, dunal planting and landscape planting to carparking areas and parkland areas, feature timber seating and picnic settings.
Stage 2 - Completed
Includes extensive pavement upgrades to the commercial areas, new kerb and channel, improved stormwater drainage and amenity planting.
Stage 3 - Construction commenced in February 2005
Includes significant upgrades to the pedestrian pavement, new kerb and channel, improved stormwater drainage and access to private properties and an additional pathway in Murraba Street.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary - With hundreds of native Australian animals on display in natural bushland and rainforest settings, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary provides a rare opportunity to get closer to our amazing native wildlife.
The Sanctuary offers a world of discovery through fascinating wildlife shows and displays, nightly Wildlife Adventure tours and our latest attraction Wild Island – an outdoor adventure playground and interactive science activity zone, combining fun-filled entertainment with fascinating wildlife education for young visitors to Sanctuary.
With more than 1400 animals and birds, the Sanctuary is home to one of the largest collections of Australian native wildlife in the world. Established nearly 60 years ago, the Sanctuary has attracted millions of visitors throughout its history and continues to provide opportunities to get closer to Australia’s amazing wildlife.
The Currumbin & Tallebudgera Valleys Conservation Reserves are made up of a total of 19 reserves covering an area of 435 hectares. These include Trees Road CA, Durobby Reserve, Bodalla Park, Ellem Family Park, Tomewin Reserve, Estelle Road Reserve, Denning Road Reserve, Both Valleys Reserve, Emily Reserve, Petch Creek Road, Luxton Bush and Rusty Court Reserve and Rainforest Glen Reserve. The reserves are located predominately on the ridges and upper slopes of the ecologically rich Currumbin and Tallebudgera Valleys.
Key values:
- The reserves are an important example of the highly biodiverse ecosystems that previously occupied a much wider area in the Border Ranges region.
- Spectacular landscape amenity values providing the visual backdrop to visitors driving the valleys.
- Highly visible from popular tourist destinations including Springbrook National Park, Mt Cougal Section, and Currumbin Rock Pools.
- Provides habitat for significant fauna including: Glossy Black Cockatoo, Koala, Platypus, Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, Pouched frog, Cascade Tree frog, Stephen’s Banded Snake and potential habitat for Albert’s Lyrebird, Spotted-tail Quoll, Powerful Owl, Sooty Owl, Marbled Frogmouth and other threatened frogs occurring within the southern valleys and hinterland.
- Habitat for threatened plants including: Spiny Gardenia, Durobby, Red Bopple Nut, Crystal Creek Walnut, Southern Fontainea and Macadamia plus numerous rare and locally significant species.
- Protects catchments of small tributaries to Currumbin and Tallebudgera Creeks.
- Contains at least nine different vegetation communities ranging from dry eucalypt woodland to montane heath and subtropical rainforest.
- Includes part of Mt Tallebudgera and provides components of the green backdrop to the City viewed from many parts of the lowland and coastal areas, and opportunities for nature-based recreation.
- Contributes to a state bioregional wildlife corridor from the Coast to the Springbrook Plateau.