Wattle Park

Wattle Park's singular appeal comes from a delicate balance between historic buildings, man-made landscape and natural bush. Opened in 1917, the park was modelled on the American trolley parks, designed to draw customers to the end of new tram lines.

Flora & FaunaThe parks is home to a numerous variety of birds these include wattlebirds, kookaburras, rosellas, rainbow lorikeets, galahs, grey currawong, musk lorikeets, white-browed scrub-wren, wood duck, little pied cormorant, brown goshawk, Australian hobby & tawny frogmouth. 20 species of butterfly, at least 60 species of beetle, 3 species of frogs, bats, skinks, ringtail and brushtail possums.

Remnants of many indigenous trees can be seen - manna gum, yellow box, common peppermint, swamp gum, black wattle, blackwood, sweet bursaria and swamp paper-bark. Native grasses and wildflowers such as kangaroo and wallaby grass, chocolate lilies and milkmaids bring the eastern slope alive.