Tallebudgera Creek

Tallebudgera Creek is a large creek on the Gold Coast which runs from Springbrook Plateau in the west through Tallebudgera Valley to the southern slopes of Burleigh Mountain at Burleigh Heads and the Pacific Ocean in the east. It's water catchment narrow at about 30 km in length.

Tallebudgera Creek is famous for good fishing, and it's name even translates in indigenous language to "good fishing".cite web |url=http://www.verygoldcoast.com.au/places_to_discover/tallebudgera_creek.html |title=Tallebudgera Creek |accessdate=2008-10-12 |date= |work= |publisher= ] Bream, flathead, whiting and the bull shark are common species that are found in the creek.

As well as the main creek there is a an extensive canal system, whose shores boast some of the Gold Coast's best housing.fact|date=October 2008 It is one of the Gold Coast's two main canal and creek systems, alongside the slightly smaller Currumbin Creek.

The Tallebudgera Creek Dam was constructed on the creek in the 1950s.

ee also

*Nerang River

References

External links

* [http://www.goldcoastwaterwatch.org/talle.htm Tallebudgera Creek Catchment]