Cost:  $100.00 per person
Restrictions:  None

East of Brisbane, the Bayside area includes a wide range of landscapes on geologies such as basalt, metamorphic and coastal deposits. The tour will visit the Redland Research Station, a major centre for research into vegetables, fruits and ornamental crops in Queensland.  One third of the station consists of Ferrosol soils, which are the prime horticultural soil of the area and from which the Redlands District takes its name. Following this, the tour will visit the Carbrook Wetlands Aggregation.

A significant proportion of the wetlands in South East Queensland have been disturbed through human impacts. The Carbrook Wetlands Aggregation contains some of the largest remaining segments of paperbark (Melaleuca) species along the coast of South East Queensland. The tour will be stopping at Carbrook Conservation Park to discuss the geomorphology of the area and work that has been conducted on wetland soils.

Finally the tour will visit one of South East Queensland's wineries to discuss issues on soil management in viticulture both within Australia and overseas.