Scotts Creek Conservation Park
Quiet floodplain reserve of red gum and lignum loops along a backwater of the lower Murray.
Scotts Creek is one of those small floodplain reserves that rewards the traveller willing to slow down. A backwater of the Murray, it threads through red gum and lignum and is alive with waterbirds when the creek is wet.
It's an easy place to launch a canoe or simply walk the bank and watch. Darters dry their wings on dead timber, pelicans loaf in the shallows, and at dusk the kangaroos drift down to drink.
There's nothing built here to speak of, which is the point. It's a slice of the working floodplain left to itself.
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- Scott Creek is a stream in downtown Dillsboro and Jackson County, North Carolina 02.jpg by Harrison Keely , CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons