Rockingham Lakes Regional Park
Name Suburb Description
Cape Peron Peron Rugged limestone cliffs with sandy beaches and offshore reefs
Lake Richmond Rockingham & Shoalwater Fresh water lake , 40ha , a maximum of 15 metres deep , home to Australian pelican , black swan , Australian shelduck , musk duck , white-faced heron , common greenshank as well as thrombolites
Lake Cooloongup Cooloongup Saline lake , 0.5 to 3.5 metres deep ,
Lake Walyungup Warnbro Salt lake , 430ha , a maximum of 3.5 metres deep , popular with landsailors
Port Kennedy Scientific Park Port Kennedy
Lark Hill Port Kennedy
Tamworth Hill Baldivis
Tamworth Hill Swamp Baldivis
Anstey Swamp Karnup
Paganoni Swamp Karnup Swamp and upland , home to tuart , jarrah , banksia and sheoak as well as brushtail possums , quenda , brush-tailed phascogales , bobtails , western blue tongues , dugites , heath monitors , black headed monitors , chuditch and Carnabys cockatoos
Areas
Rockingham Lakes Regional Park consists of the following major areas : [ 1 ]
Rockingham Lakes Regional Park is a conservation park approximately 40 kilometers south of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Rockingham. The park, established in 1997, covers a non-continuous area of 4,270 hectares and occupies approximately 16 percent of the area of the City of Rockingham. In Western Australia, regional parks consist of areas of land that have been identified as having outstanding conservation,
landscape and recreation values. The park contains remnants of the once widespread Swan Coastal Plain and two threatened ecological communities, Thrombolites and Sedgelands. It provides evidence of the sea level changes over the past 7,000 years.