Wonderful night at the Apollonian last Wednesday 12th March 2014.
Dr Elaine Brown talked about the history of the Upper Noosa River and Cooloola National Park over the past 180 years, and Ron Turner showed some great photos of the construction of the Sir Thomas Hiley Information Centre from 1978.
16 Mar 2014
12 Mar 2014
Recent history (180 years or so) of the Upper Noosa River and the construction of Kinaba (The Sir Thomas Hiley) Information Centre.
Date: 12th March 2014
Place: The Apollonian Hotel (Lounge Bar)
Time: 6pm if you are eating at the Pub - talks to start 7pm (Estimated finish time 9.30pm)
Speakers: Upper Noosa River - Elaine Brown Kinaba - Ron Turner
Cost: No charge
Contact: Ken 07 5485 3197
21 Feb 2014
The breakfast picnic at Kinaba on Sunday 16th February saw the arrival of a few more interested people who came to see the Sir Thomas Hiley Information Centre and the work Friends of Kinaba is doing there, and to enjoy the beauty of the Kinaba area, and listen to some of the stories concerning the Centre. Gail Forrer was one of the interested people, and she wrote this article in the Noosa News on Thursday 21st February 2014
16 Feb 2014
Our next b.y.o picnic at the Kinaba Information Centre for breakfast from 8am on Sunday 16th February 2014
Swim, paddle, row, sail, motor or hitch a ride with a local and come and join us and visit the Gateway to the Everglades. So close and so delightful. As the Centre is in the National Park, no domestic animals.
22 Nov 2013
We have now had 4 working bees as part of the restoration of the Kinaba Information Centre. A team of 4 to 6 people head up to Kinaba early on Geronimo, most often sailing both ways. Each bee is 4 to 6 hours of work, and a delicious spot for morning tea.
24 Sep 2013
Here are some of the volunteers ready and willing to start work at Kinaba to reinvigorate and re-open the Kinaba Information Centre as a viable information and visitor centre.
21 Sep 2013
Friends of Kinaba visit Kinaba regularly and invite everyone to meet there with us for a picnic lunch, breakfast, or morning or afternoon tea. It's a gorgeous place, and you can always find a cool, or dry, or shady, or sunny or out-of-the-wind spot to relax in.
13 Sep 2013
We're fortunate to have great generosity bestowed on our group by Jim Bennett from Boreen Point who has kindly donated a 3.4 metre tinnie with trailer to be used by the Friends Of Kinaba's mariners in order to transport equipment and voulnteers to and from Kinaba.
08 Sep 2013
Any day is wonderful in the Everglades, and last Wednesday was no exception. After motoring up and moving slowly through the channel past a dozen black swans inside Kinaba Island, we moved up past Kin Kin Creek and into Fig Tree Lake. There were Grebes, Little Black Cormorants, Darters, Pied Cormorants, Black Swans and Pelicans sunning themselves and feeding quietly.
09 Aug 2013
After kayaking through the everglades on yesterday's gorgeous sunny early morning, we were paddling back across the eastern mouth, and there were about a dozen black swans sitting on the water. As we got closer, they became alert, and took flight. These were the only three I caught on film.
