Eddie Santagiuliana Way - Cleveland

While in Cleveland this week I also visited Eddie Santagiuliana Way. This trail is named after the late Mayor Eddie Santagiuliana who served the Redland Shire as councillor and Mayor from 1982 to 2001. The foreshore trail was established as a memorial to his service to the community with stages generously supported by the business and local community.

I entered the trail from Beach Street where a boardwalk and wide path leads through paperbark and casuarina groves beside the mangrove foreshore. It's a visually interesting trail with various plants creating distinctive landscapes in close proximity. Casuarina groves create dense mats of leaf decay, smothering any other vegetation on the ground, for a textured fibre carpet effect. On the foreshore side, glimpses can be seen of rust coloured water pools, a striking contrast to silver-grey trunked mangroves. There is the sound of wind in trees again, this time I thought 'scouring' would be a good description.