The floodplain is mainly seasonally inundated paperbark and sedge swamps.
This was made either of the string itself, or of other material, including paperbark.
Paperbark trees flourish on swampy land, helped by inundations when the reservoir over fills.
Many of the wetlands are fringed by saltmarsh; other plant communities such as sedgeland and paperbark forest also occur.
Vegetation types include eucalypt forest, coastal wallum, paperbark wetland, rare coastal montane heath and some rainforest.
Using paperbark rafts, they would track the movement of a wounded crocodile and retrieve the carcass for skinning.
Other names for these trees are the paperbark tree, punk tree, or the white bottle brush tree.
The broad-leaved paperbark has been confirmed as a nymphal food plant.
