Landholders were given a new perspective on the Gwydir and Macintyre Rivers earlier this month with a series of kayak tours.
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Wildlife ecologist Phil Spark caught the creatures living in the rivers to give attendees a hands on experience. “I learned more in that one day than in three years,” Inverell’s Heinrich Haussler said.
On Tuesday, February 14, Phil showed tour goers the wildlife around Lake Inverell and upstream in the Macintyre River. In a time frame of just nine hours, he caught 66 Macquarie turtles.
“What we have at Lake Inverell and the feeding Macintyre River is to a large percentage not known by the Inverell people. I have been kayaking for three years in this area but Phil's knowledge was mind blowing,” Heinrich said.
The field day on the Gwydir River on Wednesday was a project run by Kelly Twigge to raise awareness of the threatened Bell’s Turtle.
