Jack Smith Lake Game Reserve

Featuring extensive coastal lagoons, salt marshes and native grasslands, Jack Smith Lake provides valuable feeding and nesting habitat for a range of waterbirds.

Flora & Fauna - The Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Swamp Wallaby and Common Wombat shelter within these woodlands during the day, emerging at night to feed on the native grasslands of Wallaby Grass and Tussock Grass. A vast number of insect provide food for over one hundred bird species At night when the lake contains water, it comes alive with the sound of croaking frogs.

The large shallow lake is dominated by species which have adapted to periodic inundation including Australian Salt Grass, Sea Tassel, stoneworts, Water Buttons, Water Ribbons, Silky Wilsonia, Arrowgrass, Coast Saw-sedge and Beaded Glasswort.