Great-Otway-Nationalpark
The Great Otway National Park is a national park in Victoria on the southern coast of Australia. The 1032 -square-kilometer area runs as an elongated strip of land of Anglesea in the east almost to Cape Otway in the west, partly along the coast and partly through the hinterland.
The area was declared a National Park in 2004. For this, the former Otway National Park, the Angahook - Lorne State Park, Carlisle State Park, Melba Gully State Park of the parts of the Otway State forest and a number of state land parcels were combined into a single National Park. The establishment was followed by the public campaign of a citizens' initiative called Otway Ranges Environment Network.
The park has a great diversity of landscapes and ecosystems. There are open grass and bush land, the result of the clearing by early settlers, but also great, original forest areas. Near the coast is dominated by bright eucalyptus forests, but there are also open coastal heath, cliffs, dunes and estuary landscapes. Further inland, one finds dense, dark rainforest.
The Great Ocean Road roams a large part of the park. Hikers will find in the Great Ocean Walk, a 91 km long route that takes them off the road in eight days over cliffs, secluded beaches and forests. Places to stay along the path are set up. Anyone looking for a shorter walk can reach the main path and leave on schedule furnished stitch paths and entrances.
Other attractions in the park include:
- The Cora Lyn Cascades
- The Erskine Falls
- The wreck of 1878 due to accrued Fiji
- The Kalimna Falls
- Maits rest
- The Straw Falls
- Lake Elizabeth, an incurred by a landslide in August 1953 Lake
The lighthouse at Cape Otway not heard even to the park, but is immediately west of the border and on the Great Ocean Walk.
The Melba Gully Boardwalk leading across a wooden footbridge over the Farnbüsche dark shaded rainforest. At the height of the Triplet Falls Fly Tree Top Walk in the form of wooden walkways leads in 25 feet through the roof of the rainforest, passing up to 100 meters tall trunks of eucalyptus king.