Glenbrook Lagoon

Glenbrook Lagoon

On Wednesday 29th January, after lunch, we drove down to Glenbrook Lagoon, as we wanted to photograph some of the Wetland birds.  It was a very hot afternoon and there weren't many birds about, except for a few ducks.  I guess it must have been too hot for most of the birds and they were probably resting in the nearby trees.  Perhaps, if we had been there in the evening we would have seen quite a few.  It was even too hot for us to do our usual walk, through the bush, around the Lagoon, so we left quite disappointed.  We decided to return in the cooler weather.  We know that January is not a good month to do bushwalks, but we thought being near water it might have been cooler.

We saw this Robinson Crusoe style of raft floating in the water near a sandy bank.  It looks as though some children, might had some recent holiday fun with it!

Looking across the Lagoon from a sandy shore.  The day was overcast, which led us to believe it might have been cooler than what it actually was.  It was also very humid.

A Pacific Black Duck dabbling on the water of the  Lagoon.  Even though the duck is predominantly brown, it is still called a Pacific Black Duck.  There weren't many other birds around, although Ken did see a Purple Swamphen.

 All the trees were shedding their bark and revealing the most beautiful colours on their trunks.  This one looked as though it had a giant lizard about to climb its trunk!

A fork in the pathway, one leading back to the car park and the other to the road.  The grass was even green, after the recent rain.




Glenbrook Lagoon is a heritage listed site located at Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains.  The Lagoon is a natural flat bottom freshwater Lagoon with an average depth of 2.7 metres and a maximum depth of 4.05 metres.  The Lagoon covers an area of 7 hectares and is fed by natural springs and also Lapstone Creek.  The Lagoon and its surrounding bushland provides an important natural sanctuary for native flora and fauna and is currently a nature reserve and area for Wetland birds.