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Coffs Harbour
Save Our Coffs Creek
                 As you can see from this photo taking out all this sand will be a big ongoing job that needs to be done over time.

This is just one landscape view of our Coffs Creek showing the level of sand build up from decades of just leaving it alone to its own devices.
The sand can't escape and just builds up year after year. Pollution is also a massive issue throughout areas of the creek and its had its share of
major disasters over they years. I've dedicated this page just to showing some views of what's going on in our Coffs Creek.

Hopefully one day our council will use some common sense and buy our own town dredge so this once beautiful creek can be cleaned and out
and perhaps recover again. If it were dredge enough the extra and commercial uses for the creek would no doubt benefit our town.


· Things like light boat sailing could take place.
· Areas could be set aside for smaller boat mooring.
· Better fishing.
· Boat tours.
· Better canoeing.
· Reduce the risk to flooding
· Rowing could take place.
· Swimming would be better.
· Water health could be restored over time bringing back more wildlife that's reduced due to so much pollution over time.

The following photos show a little of this most beautiful area in Coffs Harbour that really needs some major attention. A little vision would go a
long way for this beautiful area and just leaving it to decline further is a crime in itself. The nature along our creek areas is in major decline year
after year due to pollution and water levels reduced to swamp and stagnant like levels.
Its also a major threat to back flooding for many residential and CBD areas of the town all of which connect back to the Coffs Creek and are
dependent on it flowing well back out to the sea. Currently this isn't happening. We need an ongoing dredging program that first opens up a
major flow again and then gradually expand outward to take advantage of the whole creek area for its recreational use benefits.
A boat ramp to the sands? Useless to say the least all lying in waste because there's not enough water there to make the creek useful again.
Yes its low tide but the creek should have enough water in it so it can be used at high or low tides.
Click on any of the photos to enlarge them.
Sand everywhere where small boats could be sailing.
You can clearly see the levels of sand even under the water. If it were cleaned out and dredged small boat mooring could also be made possible for our town along there to the left bringing in more town income. The boat ramp is already in place on the far left.
Landscape view photos of the area.
There are few little piers around the Coffs Creek but when the tide is down you're lucky to find any water there.
What a beautiful area where small sail boats could go if only there were enough water and depth there for that to happen.
The Coffs Creek near the Promenade that if cleaned and dredged out would be perfect for rowing and a rowing club for our town schools to use? These are big tourism grabbers for our town as interschool competitions could also be held there.
If the creek were dredged then some of this  could be used as a small boat mooring area using this boat ramp.
If we want to save our nature we need to reduce the pollution into our creeks.
A Kingfisher I filmed along the Coffs Creek.
One water bird makes a picture in the Coffs Creek.
A Brush Turkey along the Coffs Creek
A Kingfisher along the Coffs Creek.
A Brush Turkey in the area.
Pelican Fishing
Pelican Searching For Food
Azure Kingfisher
Fungi along the Coffs Creek.
Our Jewel In The Crown Is Just A Tarnished Imitation Now.
Coffs Creek At Low Tide Reveals The Silted Up Sand Issue From Years Of Neglect.
Funding for buying our own town dredge should be applied for by our Coffs Harbour City Council for the long term viability works of reducing the silted sand build up within the Coffs Creek and other area rivers within our shire. Even around the Coffs Harbour and Jetty this needs doing on a regular basis. Currently money is being spent paying contractors to do small parts of this job at great expense and its a wasteful expense going no where in real long term results. Having our own dredge would make the Coffs Creek for instance less likely to flood to the same extent as in the past. The creek could be used for small boat sailing and for small boat mooring.

I was speaking with a local that actually lived right on the Coffs Creek and he said he'd never seen it that bad in all his years and it never used to be that bad. I suppose the vision of these photos really say its all as the creek which is more like a river due to its size has been neglected and cleaning it out even if it took a long time would perhaps bring life back tot he area plus a host of business and recreational opportunities to benefit the whole town. The sand could be relocated or sold to areas that need it. Dredges can move vast quantities of sand over short periods. 
This is supposed to be the Jewel In The Crown for us and its just been let go and turned into ruin.
A Coffs Creek Paddler
These Water Dragons Lizards have also been in decline after years of pollution.
    Could We Turn Coffs Creek Back Into A Commercial Fishing Area
                               And Recreational Boat Marina?


If our council were managed a little differently they could consider buying a secondhand dredge platform and pump with hoses so they could dredge out large sections of the Coffs Creek and restore it back to a boating channel. Sections at a time. Its may even restore it back to its natural days of a commercial Whiting fishing area. The dredging could be organized by volunteers.

There's also some madness behind that plan in that it could open up small recreational safe boat mooring areas thereby making it a very viable plan that could suit this town for more recreational boating. Many areas around Australia have mooring areas just like this and they're very popular. The larger commercial boats would stay at the Jetty.

Small paddle wheel boats could also offer small runs up and down the creek areas for tourism as well.  The Promenade area would make an ideal spot for that. In fact carrying on from its former history to an extent. Over the years the Coffs Creek has silted up making any form of major enterprise like this unviable but dredging out major sections could easily change all that. Even rowing events could take place in some sections of Coffs Creek. But I suppose its all too far fetched for Coffs Harbour to accept?
There used to be a pier along there on the right.
Coffs Creek was once used for commercial Whiting fishing with nets.
Black Cockatoos near the Coffs Creek.
Crane with one baby left in the nest.
This Ospray Eagle has a nest nearby and has been keeping a close eye on its single young that's just started to fly now.
After about 3 hours I managed to end up with some photos like this of the Ospray Eagle.
A young crane in the nest still.
Coffs Creek
Along the Coffs Creek.
Spoonbill
Mullet Head Skink one of the largest of the species.