Downloads & Links
Places To Go (includes 119 locations)
We are advised Mandeni is now CLOSED to the public. Please note also that some of the places listed have been badly affected by the 2019/20 bushfires.
Bird Routes
The Far South Coast Birdwatchers have developed three birdwatching routes in the Bega Valley – Wallagoot Lane, Bemboka and Wyndham.
Our Bird Route brochures provide a “step-by-step” guide to some of the best birdwatching routes in the shire.
click the links below to download the PDF files.
Newsletters
Some of our past newsletters are available for download here. If you want to receive them as soon as they are published, just become a member.
Click the links below to download the PDF files.
Website Links
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Birdlife Australia
Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG)
Birds in Backyards
Photo library for identifying your sightings
Bird calls
Eurobodalla Natural History Society
Hunter Bird Observers
Australian Wader Study Group
Handbook of Birds of the World subscribe
Entrance Opening Policies for Local Lakes
Entrance Opening Policies for Intermittently Closing and Opening Lakes or Lagoons (ICOLLs) in the Bega Valley Shire
Policies for individual lakes can be downloaded here
Wallaga Lake
1.25m AHD or
1.1 – 1.25m for more than 3 months
https://mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-219405
Cuttagee Lake
1.8m
no automatic monitoring available
Bega River
1.36m AHD or
1.26 – 1.36m and at least 200mm rain forecast
https://mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-219410
Wallagoot Lake
1.4m AHD or
1.2m or above and at least 100mm rain forecast to fall within the catchment
no automatic monitoring available
Back Lake
1.4m AHD or
1.2 – 1.4m and more than 100mm rain forecast
https://mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-219415
Curalo Lake
1.2m AHD or
1.0 – 1.2m and at least 100mm rain forecast to fall within the catchment
https://mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-220420