Star Swamp North Beach.

Star Swamp is the finest example of a metropolitan wetland still existing within a more or less natural setting. I grew up around this place, attending North beach Primary and Carine SHS.

Many hours were spent here hacksawing the roofs off abandoned cars and using them as rafts which would take us out into the middle of this magical place.
Today Star Swamp is no longer an unregulated piece of waste ground used for dumping rubbish. It is fully protected and set in a 100 hectare bushland reserve. 

Star Swamp is unique in this town in that it has somehow escaped the Europeanisation that has so badly affected so many other Perth wetlands. The natural paperbarks have been retained and the whole system dries out naturally each summer. It is the only place I know in this area that reliably produces tadpoles.

Star Swamp North Beach 13/10/2012.