Wonga Beach

History

Rocky Point State School opened on 23 February 1939, about south of the current school at Rocky Point. In 1999, the school was relocated to Wonga Beach and renamed Wonga Beach State School. Most of the Rocky Point school buildings were sold for housing, but one was relocated to Wonga Beach.

Geography

Wonga Beach is a beachside locality situated between the small residential towns of Rocky Point and the Daintree township. It is approximately north of the town of Mossman. In 1985, a large volcanic eruption beneath the Coral Sea released thousands of pumice stones to the ocean surface which were then blown along north Queensland's shore by the trade winds.

Most-observed species

• Welcome Swallow

  Hirundo neoxena Gould, 1842 · Aves
  2,273
• Green Oriole

  Oriolus flavocinctus (King, 1826) · Aves
  2,253
• Australasian Figbird

  Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 · Aves
  2,191
• Masked Lapwing

  Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  2,136
• Black Butcherbird

  Melloria quoyi (R.P.Lesson & Garnot, 1827) · Aves
  2,025
• Bar-shouldered Dove

  Geopelia humeralis (Temminck, 1821) · Aves
  1,990
• Rainbow Lorikeet

  Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771) · Aves
  1,963
• Orange-footed Scrubfowl

  Megapodius reinwardt Dumont, 1823 · Aves
  1,915