Tinchi Tamba Wetlands are located about 19 kilometres north of the Brisbane CBD, between Pine River and Bald Hills Creek. Freshwater and saltwater create a habitat for mangroves, grasslands, salt marshes, melaleuca wetlands.
In particular, mangroves are paramount for the life of fish, crabs, molluscs and birds. During major floods, most of Tinchi Tamba is covered by water. It is possible to explore the area through a couple of easy walks - Bird Hide and Island Circuit tracks or by canoe following the Eagle and Island canoe trails.
At Deep Water Bend, there are many facilities, including barbecue, picnic, toilet and fishing facilities.

Tinchi Tamba Wetland was rescued by Brisbane City Council. Photo by Author.
Park your car at Deepwater Bend Carpark and start to walk toward the public boat ramp along North Pine River. For a certain length, you can walk on a nice wooden boardwalk.

North Pine River going to the sea. Photo by Author.

There are a few signs about the rules in the marine park. Photo by Author.
The vegetation includes a variety of trees including dry eucalypt woodlands, casuarina forests, paperbark swamps, intertidal flats, mangroves, low open shrubland, salt marshes, grasslands, reed and sedge swamp pasture.

Soon you come across a sign with the directions for Island Circuit Walk 1.8 km return and Bird Hide 1 Km return. Photo by Author.
Mangroves are trees growing along shores and stream banks. Mangroves are paramount for many plants and animals and are nurseries for many marine species.

The beautiful flowers of some mangrove trees in the Tinchi Tamba Wetlands. Photo by Author.

Mangroves in the wetlands. Photo by Author.
Moreton Bay Marine Park is listed as a Wetland of International Importance. During the migratory season, many shorebirds feed on the food-rich mud flats and roost in the salt marshes and mangroves along the shore. These birds fly from countries as far away as Siberia, China, Japan, Mongolia and Alaska to Moreton Bay. The bay is also an important refuge for the vulnerable dugong and green and loggerhead turtles that are a threatened species worldwide.
Depending on the season, you can spot collared kingfishers, mangrove honeyeaters, striated herons and mangrove gerygones, sea-eagles and brahminy kites, great egrets and pied cormorants, eastern curlews, sharp-tailed sandpipers and whimbrels, avocets, royal spoonbills, Pacific herons and Australian white ibis, pale-headed rosellas, rufous whistlers and brown honeyeaters, brown quails and golden-headed cisticola in the grasslands and cormorants.

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The Pine River floodplain is still formed from sediments washed over thousands of years from the D'Aguilar Mountains to the west. The river continually changes shape by seasonal flooding and from the action of the tides. Where the river runs fast, it creates erosion of the banks.
Aboriginal people have fished at Tinchi Tamba for thousands of years. Today it is still a popular fishing spot. Ospreys and Brahminy kites hunt their fish above the river.

The vegetation of the wetlands is red in many sections. Photos by Author.
In spring, the tides flood the saltmarshes and once the water evaporates the soils are very salty that only a few specialised vegetation can survive. Casuarina trees grow to the edge of the marsh, making the highest tides. The only fresh water is rainwater.
The forest is enriched by different plants and trees which germinate from seeds transported by the wind, water and visiting animals from other forests.

Vegetation in the woodland. Photo by Author.

Monkey rope vines are caterpillar food for the common crow butterfly. Photo by Author.

Aspect of the boardwalk. Photo by Author.

The bark of the tree has many lichens. Photo by Author.

The tranquil Tinchi Tamba wetlands. Photo by Author.
If you want to make your walk longer, when you are returning from the Island Circuit, jump down the boardwalk when you encounter the sign with the title High Salt.

Here we can jump off the boardwalk and make the walk longer. Photo by Author.
Follow the dirt road and sometimes you will see the dirt road intersects other dirt roads. At the first intersection, keep left.

Turn left at the first intersection and keep following the dirt road. Photo by Author.
Sometimes the dirt road seems to disappear in the marshland but the trail is there.

An aspect of the dirt road. Photo by Author.

Mob of kangaroos. Photo by Author.
Tinchi Tamba is one of the very few places in Brisbane where you can see a mob of kangaroos. They are very shy and I was able to take a few photos from a distance.

Male kangaroo. Photo by Author.

Flowers of a tree. Photo by Author.

Birdwatcher cabin along the trail. Photo by Author.

View from the birdwatcher cabin. Photo by Author.

Vegetation on the trail. Photo by Author.

Every tree is taken over by monkey vines. Photo by Author.
Location: Deep Water Bend Reserve
Address: Wyampa Rd, Bald Hills QLD 4036
Reference www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/clean-and-green/natural-environment-and-water/bushland-reserves/tinchi-tamba-wetlands

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