VISION-impaired people will soon have a braille guided walk to help them navigate the much-loved King Island at Wellington Point
With the help of Vision Australia, scientist Michael Lusis has translated the King Island guided walk publication into braille so people can more easily appreciate the much-loved site.
It will be launched as part of a two-week environment festival called Peaks to Points.
A walk to the island and seagrass monitoring will be held at Wellington Point on July 16. It’s one of 40 events happening from Ipswich down to Moreton Bay.
Mr Lusis, a Wildlife Queensland bayside branch member and scientist, will run the King Island activity.
Wildlife Queensland project officer Debra Henry said a seminar would be held at Indigiscapes on the day, with talks on quolls, platypus, gliders and seagrass.
She said the braille work was a bonus.
“I expect this will really add something for a lot of people,’’ Ms Henry said.
Mr Lusis also would talk about his masters research thesis, looking at the prospects of a World Heritage listing for Moreton Bay.
This would be followed by the seagrass monitoring and guided walk to the island for which numbers were limited.
The King Island Conservation Park is 1km off Wellington Point and accessible along a sandy spit at low tide.
Although it was first protected in 1975, its fauna has been hit hard.
It remains an important refuge for birds but used to have possums, bandicoots, water rats, land rails, stone curlews and snipes.
RSVP for the seminar at Indigiscapes as numbers are limited.
Last year Mr Lusis, from the University of Queensland, started surveying Moreton Bay researchers to see if the 3400sq km waterway was worth national or World Heritage listing.
The bay was the site of a major battle in 2009 when recreational fishing groups bitterly fought the state government when it increased protected green zones from 0.5 per cent to 16 per cent.
