Rock Wallaby Traditional Cache
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ROCK WALLABY
The medium-sized, often colourful and extremely agile rock-wallabies live where rocky, rugged and steep terrain can provide daytime refuge. Males are slightly larger than females with a body length of up to 59 cm and a 70 cm long tail.
Rock-wallabies are nocturnal and live a fortress existence spending their days in steep, rocky, complex terrain in some kind of shelter (cave, overhang or vegetation) and ranging out into surrounding terrain at night for feed. The greatest activity occurs three hours before sunrise and after sunset.
Their reliance on refuges leads to the rock-wallabies living in small groups or colony, with individuals having overlapping home ranges of about 15 hectares each. Within their colonies they seem to be highly territorial with a male’s territory overlapping one or a number of female territories. Even at night the wallabies do not move further than two kilometres from their home refuges.
Generally, there are three categories of habitat that the different species of rock-wallaby seem to prefer:
- - Loose piles of large boulders containing a maze of subterranean holes and passageways
- - Cliffs with many mid-level ledges and caves
- - Isolated rock stacks, usually sheer sided and often girdled with fallen boulders
Suitable habitat is limited and patchy and has led to varying degrees of isolation of colonies and a genetic differentiation specific to these colonies.
Redwood Park comprises 197 ha of bushland, situated below the escarpment between Prince Henry Heights and the Warrego Highway.
The trails in this park are: Redwood Forest Walk (3.8km)
Grass Tree track (1.7km) Ferntree Gully Walk (840m)
Eagle's Nest Trail and the Bridle Trail (2.1km)
This cache is just off the trail. Follow Redwood Forest Walk uphill from the parking spot.
Beware of stinging plants along the way.
Toilets and picnic table are near the parking co-ords.
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