

Please also keep a lookout for snakes around this launch point, as have spotted two or three in the past. If the weather has been really hot, you may see them skimming the river on their evening flight. If you are doing a sunset paddle these guys take to the sky, and look pretty amazing. People visit this park just to see them, and the park does have a viewing platform. These guys hang out in the surrounding trees, mostly on the other side of the river. Bellbird Park launch point is home to a VERY large colony of Grey-headed (occasionally loud and smelly) flying-foxes. Below the Weir is a small section of small rapids, and note from below the Weir the Yarra becomes a tidal river, with clear access all the way into the city. A further 1.5km downstream will take you to Dights falls "an artificial weir built on a natural rock bar across the Yarra", also where the Merri Creek joins the Yarra. If you continue down stream past Studley Park Boathouse you will see the Yarra Bend Park kayak launch point. Heading down river from Bellbird Park you can do a 5.7km return trip to Studley Park Boathouse, passing under Kanes Bridge. You can continue upstream for several more kms, well past the Chandler Hwy Bridge. Our students are enveloped in opportunity in the academic, cultural and sporting facets of school. With a dedicated staff and an innovative curriculum we strive for personal excellence. Our school is renowned for its scholarship where learning is aspirational, challenging and rewarding. Good idea to bring some rope so you can secure your yak up at the Boathouse, should you feel like drink or something to eat. MacGregor State High School is a school of enviable repute. The College has been founded on strong community relationships. The school opened in January 2017 for year 7 students and will continue to grow a year level at a time until 2022 when our first year 12 students will graduate. From here if you head up stream, it is a 4.8km return trip to Fairfield Boathouse, going under the Eastern Freeway and Fairfleld Pipe Bridge. Welcome to Bellbird Park State Secondary College, one of Queensland’s newest secondary schools. Except for times of flood, the water is slow moving, flat, and easy paddle in either direction. Our core product, includes a range of features that can be used in a customised bundle that meets the needs of your school.

Teachers as life-long learners will continue to focus on their curriculum and balance their pedagogical skills to best. Sealed steep path from carpark down to launch area on the river. Daymap is a learning and student management system that helps augment existing school systems to make life easier for staff, students and parents. Computers have been in classrooms for many years and over the past ten years the use of computers and Information Communication Technologies (ICT) has grown in their application within and outside the classroom. Wooden sloping kayak launch ramp into the Yarra, at time of writing this (2019), it could use some maintenance, but still fully functional.
