Rainforests
Victoria's vast tracts of rainforest are protected within its parks and reserves.
Rainforest areas can be found in the following parks and reserves:
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Some of the most rugged and inaccessible coastline in Victoria lies in this 13,000 hectare park, an invitation to the adventurous to explore this 60-kilometre stretch from Apollo Bay to Princetown.
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Comprising 22,000 hectares this park takes in the steep timbered ridges of the eastern Otways, fern gullies, waterfalls, and a coast with tall cliffs and sandy beaches. The northern area around Aireys Inlet is drier and has heathlands of great floral diversity.
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Melba Gully is someties called "the jewel of the Otways", an apt description for a place where glow worms can be seen. This area is one of the wettest places in the state, with an annual rainfall over 2000mm, and plant growth is profile.
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Take a tranquil walk or scenic drive through this park. It preserves the largest remaining stand of temperate rainforest in Victoria as well as ancient wet eucalypt forests. The majority of the park is accessible only in the drier months.
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Located in eastern Victoria along the Snowy River, this park is in a remote wilderness area and features magnificent river scenery, deep gorges and forests of Grey Gum, alpine ash, messmate and native pine.
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This park surrounds the Mitchell River. There are several gorges. Remnants of temperate rainforest line some of the gorges.
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This park covers 87,500 hectares and extends for 100 kilometres along the wilderness coast of East Gippsland. It protects remote beaches, tall forests, heathland, rainforest, estuaries and granite peaks.
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