Kirrama - Rain Forest-Sclerophyl Ecotone

600 m asl, about 30 km inland from Kennedy (N of Cardwell) on a semi-all-weather dirt road. The field station is near the top of the Cardwell Range (part of the Coastal Range system) and is within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Zone boundary.

The road passes through heavy rainforest but the field station is sited in the ecotone region, about 2km beyond the major stream study site of Yuccabine Ck.

The station is a converted logging hut with two dormitory rooms and a workroom. Kitchen facilities are restricted to an open hearth fireplace. As the station is unprotected (fenced, key from Laboratory Manager) it is not furnished.

Water is from a rainwater tank, power requires a mobile generator. There is a dump of old roofing iron just beyond the camp which usually has a resident taipan (generally regarded as the world's #3 deadliest snake). Take care.

White-tailed rats will break into any unprotected food. They gnaw through tins so take precautions. Used for the third year Entomology (about Easter), Wildlife, and Botany field trips, as well as research.