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Doughty Park is located at the corner of Main Street, Main Western Road and Geissmann Drive. Map
It is a family park with picnic and childrens play area. It also contains the Tamborine Mountain Visitor Information Centre.
Further Report in Progress
This is maturing into a beautiful stretch of native vegetation along a creek line with a walking path for locals' enjoyment. The Ohia Court creek line is one of the Tamborine Mountain Landcare Inc projects. It forms part of a wider corridor regeneration connecting the escarpment with three important ecological features: MacDonald Section Tamborine Mountain National Park, A National Park section along Wongawallan Road and a native forest along Contour Road.
< Judy and Julie sitting near the creek enjoying the surrounds.
A regeneration projects by Tamborine Mountain Landcare Inc. It is on a strip of slope between Contour Road and Kinabalu Drive in Eagle Heights.The slope is steep but the dirt path makes it acceptable for at least a down hill movement. Going back up may be a test for some.It is also a great example of regeneration around small pockets of old native growth rainforest sections including a magnificent old Fig Tree in Areca Gully with an extensive exposed root structure over rocks with an emerging stream below it.
There are some working tracks but they are not tourist grade. The regenerated forest is mostly mature for walking in some sections but keep an eye out for low branches. A walking line of ribbon markers is available from a recent species survey of the site. One of the interesting results of the regeneration has been the noticed return of log-runner bird activity in this area.
A regeneration projects by Tamborine Mountain Landcare Inc. The site is a strip of slope between Contour Road and Kinabalu Drive in Eagle Heights. This is notable for a recent survey which found an unidentified plant species which is currently being examined by the Herbarium for classification. The slope is steep but the dirt path makes it acceptable for at least a down hill movement. Going back up may be a test for some. It is a great example of regeneration around small pockets of old native growth rainforest sections.
Why does attentiveness to nature matter? In a very fundamental sense, we are what we pay attention to. Paying heed to beauty, grace, and everyday miracles promotes a sense of possibility and coherence that runs deeper and truer than the often illusory commercial, social "realities" advanced by mainstream contemporary culture. ... Our attention is precious, and what we choose to focus it on has enormous consequences. What we choose to look at, and to listen to--these choices change the world. As Thich Nhat Hanh has pointed out, we become the bad television programs that we watch. A society that expends its energies tracking the latest doings of the celebrity couple is fundamentally distinct from one that watches for the first arriving spring migrant birds, or takes a weekend to check out insects in a mountain stream, or looks inside flowers to admire the marvelous ingenuities involved in pollination. The former tends to drag culture down to its lowest commonalities; the latter can lift us up in a sense of unity with all life. The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas)
