With BHP Steel and Esso on the horizon and tankers out to sea Warringine Park boardwalk stretches around a section of Western Port on the Mornington Peninsular from Hastings to Bittern. We walked from Hastings to the viewing platform and returned.
The wetland attracts many migratory birds including a curlew overwintering from Siberia. 176 different bird species have been sighted in the park. The boardwalk has been recently rebuilt after a fire in January 2015. The walk begins on a raised track and then continues on a boardwalk.
The shrubs regenerating were Leptospermum and Allocasuarina and the trackside community included Austrodanthonia sp. and a little pigface, possibly Disphyma crassifolium.
The dominate greenery around the pool here is Samphire I think; Sarcocornia quinqueflora.