The park has sandy surf beaches, rugged bays, rock platforms, quiet campgrounds, sheltered inlets and historic lighthouses. Its heathlands and forests are home to a variety of plants and animals, including threatened species such as the ground parrot, eastern bristlebird, hooded plover, yellow-bellied glider and long-nosed potoroo.
Looking out at Bay Cliff you are looking at the commencement of Nadgee Nature Reserve. This reserve runs down to the Victorian border.
Most of the Nadgee area between the granite backdrop hills and the coast is underlain by sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone and shale. From the hills the sediments dip towards the ocean where they form cliffs. In the north, around the Merrica River and Tumbledown Mountain, the sedimentary rocks have undergone some folding and have hardened into quarzites and slates. The area contains a number of large coastal sand masses. These dune formations are some of the very few along the NSW coast which remain undisturbed by mineral sand mining or housing developments. In New South Wales the wilderness includes all of the Merrica and Nadgee River catchments and the upper catchments of Dowell, Harrison and Royds Creeks. Local relief ranges from sea level to 543m on top of Mount Nadgee. The Nadgee area is considered part of the transition area between cold and warm temperate coastal and estuarine environments. Tidal and sub-tidal fauna species representative of both the southern cold temperate shores of Australia and warm temperate areas are found in the area. Sub-tidally there are fairly rich beds of algae, abalone, cunjevoi and a restricted number of other species.
From the lookout you can see Bay Cliff with the mouth of the Wonboyn River to the north of it.
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1. How many million years old is Bay Cliff?
2. How many years ago was it an island?
3. Why is it no longer an island?
4. Approximately how high is Bay Cliff?(This is just your guess)
5. Post a photo (in your log) of yourself and GPS standing at the lookout. This is an option and not required to log the cache. Don’t put any of the answers in your log or it will be deleted.
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I hope you enjoy your visit to this magnificent area.
Information for this cache is from Parks NSW and information boards in the park
Before venturing into Parks check out the following web site for more info.
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/parksafety/
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/FireClosure.aspx
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/nationalparks/default.aspx