Lake Saint Clair

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Lake St Clair Conservation Park

Heath vegetation fringing Lake Saint Clair
Photo: Tim Bond


Lake St Clair Conservation Park is located about 20 km south east from Robe on the north-eastern shore of Lake St Clair. The park constitutes the 'corner block', where White Hill road meets the main road from Robe to Beachport at a T-junction. It resides within the Lower South East District of the South East Region, and is managed from our office at Robe.


Flora
There is a diverse range of flora species within Lake St Clair Conservation Park. There is one plant species with state conservation status, three plant species with regional conservation significance and three regionally significant plant associations.

Species of note occurring within the park include the state rare Creeping Cotula, Cotula reptans.



Fauna

Swamp Antechinus with young
Photo: Mark Bachmann


The park creates a haven for bird species and although there are no records within the park, the swamp provides habitat for two bird species of national significance - the Orange-bellied Parrot, Neophema chrysogaster , and the Hooded Plover, Thinornis rubricollis . There are also four birds with state significance and three of regional significance recorded in the park.

The distribution of the state endangered marsupial, Swamp Antechinus, Antechinus minimus var martimus, is considered to have contracted to a few known core populations along the coast of the lower south east, including a known population within the park, near the western limit of the species.

Lake St Clair is habitat to the Golden Plover. The numbers of these birds sighted would indicate that the lake is of national significance to this migratory species.