Green Cape 2015
COG at Green Cape 2015 Canberra Ornithologists Group Visit to Green Cape, NSW, 12-16 October 2015 Watercolor by Kathy Walter Green Cape juts out into the Tasman Sea at the extreme SE corner of mainland Australia. It is just N of the border between the states of NSW and Victoria. The narrow tip of Green Cape points almost SE. To the W and SW is Disaster Bay and the coastline northwards from the cape runs roughly NNW. To seawards our observations include the area to the limits of visibility, which from the tip of Green Cape (the Point) involves an arc of about 320°. Figure 1: Google map of Green Cape The Google image of Green Cape (see Figure 1) shows various tracks, the main dirt road to the light station and the clearly visible forest edge to the N of the heathlands. This year most of the heathlands were recovering from an extensive burn that occurred more than a year ago. This was the sixth field trip to Green Cape organised by the Canberra Ornithologists Group. (Pre...