The Tallebudgera Outdoor & Environmental Education Centre is located on the southern bank of the Tallebudgera Creek and behind the sand dunes of North Palm Beach. This site has been a significant place for millenia for the traditional custodians of the local area, the Kombumerri people.
The existence of stone fish traps and extensive midden sites indicates the rich and abundant food sources hunted and gathered from the creek, mangroves, melaleuca wetlands, eucalypt forests and rain forests that covered Jellurgal (Burleigh Head National Park).
The site of the Tallebudgera O&EEC was recognised as a place worth protecting with a parcel of land set aside as a camping area for tourists for the past 150 years. The natural beauty of the creek estuary, ocean beaches, rock pools and rainforests offer visiting students a unique learning opportunity. The Centre's core program is designed to allow students opporunities to explore and experience these places and learn about the significant Indigenous history, how people value the local area and to connect to natural world.
The local environments include:
- creek estuary
- ocean beach
- sand dunes
- mangroves
- rock pools
- rainforests