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| Tarra Bulga National Park | |
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you’re in the mood for national parks, a good one can be reached from
Yarram, 50km beyond Foster on the South Gippsland Highway. Tarra Bulga
National Park, in the heart of the Strzelecki Ranges, is dominated by
forests of mountain ash and myrtle beech with a lower canopy of ferns –
a cool green environment alive with colourful lyrebirds, crimson rosellas
and yellow-breasted robins among the rich birdlife.
The park takes its name partly from the Aborigine Charlie Tarra who accompanied explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki through the area in 1840. Strzelecki's party would have perished if not for the hunting skills of Tarra. The park is the veritable jewel in the crown of what the locals call Tarra Territory". The park is comprised of two sections - Tarra and Bulga. These lush areas of rainforest are all that remain of a great forest of trees which at one time covered all of Gippsland. Noted for their towering mountain ash and thick cover of ferns, both sections of the park are linked by the Grand Ridge Road. |
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The Grand Ridge Road (mostly unsealed) winds along the top of the Strzelecki Ranges through fern gullies and towering trees, affording gorgeous views of South Gippsland. Practicalities |
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visitors information centre at Balook on the Grand Ridge Road,
between the two separate sections of the park, has information about walks
and is open on weekends, daily during the summer and Easter holidays,
usually 10am–4pm, but times may vary.
The Park has plenty of walking tracks, a picnic area and a host of wildlife, including the remarkable lyrebird. The Tarra Bulga Guest House, on a beef and lamb property on Grand Ridge Road just 50m from the visitors centre, has every amenity, including a library and games room. |
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