Survey Point | St Helens Basin camp Tas |
Latitude | -41.3706600 (41° 22′ 14″ S) |
Longitude | 148.2920800 (148° 17′ 31″ E) |
On the Tasman Hwy about 12km south of St Helens, on a small promontory around the basin also known as Diana’s Basin, the camp is free with no facilities. The beach is closed to driving which I applaud, but some people are selfish enough to ignore the rule. There is good littoral habitat here and the sandy flats are prospective for beach nesting birds which is why I hope they enforce the rule here.
Camp rating 10 there are sites all along the shore of the placid bay, there are no facilities here
Surveys done 1
Blogs:
- Black Swan Cygnus atratus 1 (100.00%)
- Musk Duck Biziura lobata 1 (100.00%)
- Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus 1 (100.00%)
- Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans 1 (100.00%)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris 1 (100.00%)
- Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles 1 (100.00%)
- Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae 1 (100.00%)
- Pacific Gull Larus pacificus 1 (100.00%)
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia 1 (100.00%)
- White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae 1 (100.00%)
- Australasian Gannet Morus serrator 1 (100.00%)
- Little Pied Cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos 1 (100.00%)
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo 1 (100.00%)
- Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris 1 (100.00%)
- Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens 1 (100.00%)
- Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Zanda funereus 1 (100.00%) (B)
- Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus 1 (100.00%)
- White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons 1 (100.00%)
- Little Wattlebird Anthochaera chrysoptera 1 (100.00%)
- Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis 1 (100.00%)
- Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla 1 (100.00%)
- Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa 1 (100.00%)
- Forest Raven Corvus tasmanicus 1 (100.00%)
- Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena 1 (100.00%)
- Silvereye Zosterops lateralis 1 (100.00%)
- Common Blackbird Turdus merula 1 (100.00%)

Another swan in another bay
Silver Gull