About Sunday Creek

Location

Sunday Creek Environmental Education Centre (S.C.E.E.C.) is situated on a special lease in the Jimna State Forest 792, approximately 45km north of Kilcoy and 30km west of Kenilworth. The Centre is also located on "The Jimna Diggings" where gold was first discovered in 1868. The population fluctuated in the area from a high of 3000 persons to a low of a few prospectors scratching for alluvial over the next ninety years. In 1948 the area where the Centre is situated was the site of a sawmill owned by Queensland Soft and Hardwoods Pty Ltd. This mill utilised timber from the surrounding forest and had the contract for supplying the bearers in the construction of school buildings. The mill closed in the early sixties and the buildings were acquired by the forestry service. In 1976 these building and a small surrounding area were leased by the Education Department and converted into a Field Study Centre. Sunday Creek received a name change in 1988 and is now known as Sunday Creek Environmental Education Centre.

Characteristics

The Centre is surrounded by open forests but is in close proximity to wet Sclerophyll forests and rainforests. It has been the centre for extensive gold mining in the past and relics of this era abound. The main activity in recent years has been the forest industry where regular harvesting has been carried out.