Alexandra Dodd and Martin Camp are the owners of Noonaweena a property situated in Macmasters Beach approximately 3kms northeast of Copacabana, New South Wales. The property is an acreage with a two-storey house and granny flat that backs onto Bouddi National Park. Being unfenced the property provides a safe corridor on two sides of the property. A creek which is part of the National Park also runs behind the property.
Noonaweena spans 1.01 hectares across Wet sclerophyll forests including the plant community types of Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest and Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest. The property features flora species such as subtropical plants, tree ferns, palms and birds’ nests ferns (Asplenium australasicum), an abundance of eucalypt trees, a large macadamia tree, mango tree, jacaranda tree, bottlebrushes (Callistemon sp.), a huge Moreton Bay fig tree (Ficus macrophylla) and several ornamental fig trees (Ficus spp.). The property has about six different types of lilly pillies, liquid amber trees and lots of Pittosporum trees.
The property provides habitat for a range of species including swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor), flying foxes (Pteropus sp.), brush turkeys (Alectura lathami), brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus), yellow‑bellied gliders (Petaurus australis), goannas (Varanus sp.), diamond pythons (Morelia spilota spilota), water dragons (Intellagama lesueurii), land mullets (Bellatorias major), blue‑tongued lizards (Tiliqua scincoides), kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae), yellow‑tailed black cockatoos (Zanda funerea), sulphur‑crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita), magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen), ravens (Corvus sp.), currawongs (Strepera sp.), tawny frogmouths (Podargus strigoides), goshawks, bellbirds as well as introduced deer.
