There are many quiet fire trails that criss-cross the park and provide wonderful opportunities for bush walking, bird watching and photographing the native wildlife, wildflowers, shrubs, trees and lagoons.

Vegetation along the fire trails changes and includes paperbarks, casuarinas, rough-barked apples, black she-oaks, grass trees and bright orange-yellow flowering wallum banksias.

Wildlife likely to be seen include koalas, swamp wallabies, paddymelons, brushtailed phascogales, echidnas, goannas, bats and flying foxes. The dominant vegetation type within the Park is wet and dry heath, which comprises 38% of the total park area.

The heath is considered unique to the area, and is amongst the oldest on the NSW coast, and possibly on the east coast of Australia. Other vegetation types include pockets of rainforest, dry and wet sclerophyll, shrubs, grass/herbs and saltmarsh. The firetrails pass through all of these.

The Park has the major known occurrence of sedge heath vegetation in NSW, and is an important link for the migration of some animal species and over-wintering grounds for many other bird species. Salty Lagoon

The Park has several swamps and marshlands, which are home to many species of waders including ibis, herons, black swans and brolgas. Around Salty Lagoon, which is several kilometres from Broadwater Beach Retreat, the rare jabiru is occasionally sighted. The walk to Salty Lagoon passes through banksia scrub to wet heath areas and finally to coastal dunes which lie between the lagoon and Airforce Beach — a surfing beach. It is an easy and relaxing 3 kilometre walk to the lagoon.