General Description
Curramore Sanctuary
Curramore is part of the forested western edge of the Blackall Range which provides stark contrast to the largely deforested country of the adjacent Maleny Plateau. From the ridge carrying Donovan’s Knob, the land within the property descends eastwards to Cedar Creek and then rises sharply again to the eastern boundary. Southwards, it falls through 300 m in less than 1 km to the southern boundary of the property. Below that boundary the timbered country rapidly gives way to steep deforested slopes.
Cedar Creek begins just outside the northern boundary of the property. Wet season flows quickly diminish to a trickle before ceasing by the beginning of spring. Before leaving the property the creek descends via a steep rock face to a sheltered rocky valley.
A mantle of rainforest covers high country to the south of Donovan’s Knob, as well as near its south-western boundary, and small pockets of forest rich in palms, are prominent in sheltered gullies and along the creek. A small pocket of rainforest fills the sheltered valley below the falls. Elsewhere, generally tall eucalypt forest of a number of different types clothes the slopes.