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Grinder Cape Liptrap Coastal Park For further information PIPIS:. Limits and conditions apply to pipi The light is still in operation and has a range of 18 Parks Victoria collection and these limits are regularly reviewed nautical miles (over 34 kilometres). Information Centre by the Department of Primary Industries. For Call 13 1963 more information contact DPI on 13 6186 or visit Rich in plants and wildlife or visit our website at www.dpi.vic.gov.au, or refer to the current Cape Liptrap Coastal Park features extensive www.parks.vic.gov.au Victorian Recreational Fishing Guide. A coastal heathlands of Scented Paperbark, recreational fishing licence is required to collect Park Office Common Heath, Scrub She-oak, Dwarf She-oak, pipis from Victorian Beaches. Cnr Victory Ave & Pink Swamp-heath, Prickly Teatree, Silver McDonald St MOLLUSC NO TAKE ZONE: All molluscs Banksia and Bushy Hakea. Foster VIC 3960 (commonly called shellfish) in the intertidal zone Thickets of Coast Teatree together with stands of South Gippsland between Point Smythe and Arch Rock are Coast Banksia are found at Point Smythe and Visitor Information Centre protected, except for pipis (see above), squid, along the coastal sand dunes. Open forests of South Gippsland Highway cuttlefish, octopus and squirters. Korumburra VIC 3950 Manna Gum and Messmate Stringybark occur in Ph. 1800 630 704 A recreational fishing licence is required to take the southern half of the park. fish (including bait and shellfish) in all Victorian Caring for the These forests are important as they include tree marine, estuary and freshwaters. The Victorian environment hollows which provide nesting sites for a variety of Recreational Fishing Guide specifies bag limits birds and mammals. Help us look after your park and seasons for different fish. by following these guidelines: The Common Brushtail Possum, Ringtail Possum, Boats can only be launched within the park from All plants and animals in the Sugar Glider and Powerful Owl are nocturnal, the beach at Walkerville. All boats must travel at park are protected. Please do resting during the day in tree hollows and less than 5 knots when within 200 m of the shore. not disturb or remove any emerging only at night to feed under the cover of plants or animals Dogs darkness. The extensive heathlands near Bins are not provided within Walkerville are home to the Southern Emu Wren Dogs are permitted in the following areas of Cape the park. Please take your and a diverse range of Honeyeaters. rubbish home with you Liptrap Coastal Park: The park echoes to the calls of the Eastern Vehicles, including trail bikes, • between Walkerville North and Walkerville Whipbird, Crimson Rosella and Pied Currawong. may only be driven or ridden South. on formed roads open to the Along the coast you may see Pacific Gulls, Silver public, and must be fully road • between Venus Bays No. 1 and No. 5 Beaches. Gulls, Sooty Oyster Catchers and Herons feeding registered. Drivers and riders on the beach and rock platforms or Cormorants • between Waratah Bay township and Cooks must hold a current licence and Australian Gannets diving for fish. The park is Creek. Campfires are only permitted also home to the Common Wombat, Swamp in designated fireplaces at Dogs in the above areas must be on a lead at all Wallaby, Koala, Echidna and the rare Swamp Bear Gully. times and are prohibited from these areas Antechinus. No fires, including liquid fuel between 9 am and 6 pm from 1 December until 31 stoves, may be lit on days of March. Dogs are prohibited in all other areas of Geological matters Total Fire Ban the park. Ranging from exposures of metamorphic rocks to This park is located in the Remnants of the past recent sand deposits, the park has one of the West & South Gippsland Total most interesting and complex geological Fire Ban District The Gunai/Kurnai and Boonwurruny indigenous sequences in Victoria. Diverse land forms feature Do not pollute streams or people have inhabited this area for over 6,000 along the coast including rock platforms, steep rivers with refuse, detergents years. Axes and other stone tools were made from cliffs, sea caves, stacks and sandy beaches. or human waste quartzite and jasper gathered from Cape Liptrap, Cape Liptrap is a narrow peninsula formed by the Dogs are permitted on some chipped to a sharp edge and ground with spine of the Hoddle Range running out to sea. It of the beaches within the sandstone. Middens containing charcoal, stone consists of steep cliffs of folded marine sediments park, but must be on a leash flints and the remains of shellfish mark the flanked by rock pinnacles and wave cut platforms. at all times. Time restrictions location of camps along the coast. apply over summer Between Venus Bay and Cape Liptrap, the coast The small township and bustling port of Waratah Collection of gemstones is varies between attractive cliffs of dune limestone permitted from beaches within (now Walkerville) operated from 1875 to 1926 to with rock stacks and pebble beaches, to broad the park supply lime to the Melbourne building industry. sandy beached backed by high dunes. Limestone mined from the cliffs was burnt with Mudstone, shale and sandstone, together with firewood in brick lined kilns to produce quick lime. fossil-rich limestone outcrop within the low cliffs at Healthy Parks Healthy People The lime was then bagged and hauled in tram Bell Point and Walkerville South, while gemstones Visiting a park can improve carts along a 350 metre jetty which once stretched such as jasper and serpentine are often found in your health, mind, body and out into the bay to waiting ships. Relics of the lime soul. So, with over four million the sheltered coves. industry remain in the park including the ruins of hectares of parkland available to Victorians, why not escape the kilns in the cliffs at Walkerville South. to a park today! A lighthouse was established at Cape Liptrap in July 2014 Printed on Australian-made 100% recycled paper 1913 to improve the safety of coastal shipping