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Railway farewelled Opening Times: Friday, famous killer whale was Park Getting there: Turn at Edrom its last train over 1 Saturday and Sunday, 10am to Old Tom, you can see his skeleton Road 18kms south of Eden then travel Central Tilba and Tilba 30 years ago, The history of Central Tilba 2pm Phone: 02 6493 4108 and other amazing whale memorabilia at the for 6km, turn right onto the unsealed Green Tilba however the site still attracts begins 60 million years ago, when the Eden Killer Whale Museum. Opening times: Cape Road, and follow it for 15km until you the attention of many train enthusiasts. The imposing Mount Gulaga was an active 5 Tathra Wharf 9.15am – 3.45pm Monday – Saturday 11.15am reach Bittangabee Access Road. site remains relatively intact and is now used volcano. The entire village of Central Tilba Built in 1860, Tathra Wharf is one of the last – 3.45pm Sundays. Extended trading hours Fees: National Park access fees apply. to distil lavender. 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After an extensive renovation in section of Ben Boyd National Park, it remains Highway, Bombala Phone: 02 6458 4622 2006, the remarkable building is now a luxurious the southernmost lighthouse in New South 2 6 Montague Island Old School Museum Merimbula beachside boutique hotel with restaurants. Wales. Green Cape is also the historical site Long before it was discovered in $WKNVKPVJKUDWKNFKPIJQWUGFVJGƂTUV 11 If Bombala Burnima Homestead Location: Boydtown Park Road, 7km south of of the Ly-ee Moon ship disaster of 1886 which 1770 by James Cook, Montague school in Merimbula. It is full of good yarns had been chosen as the site for the nation’s Eden Contact: 02 6496 1361 claimed 71 lives. Accommodation is available Island was known as Barunguba, about Merimbula’s original inhabitants, the Yuin capital, Government House would almost http://bit.ly/seahorseinn at the restored keepers cottages for those the eldest son of Gulaga. Maritime people, early settlers, the Pig & Whistle steam certainly have been Burnima. The 32 room wanting to spend a night in this remarkable Montague Island Lighthouse history buffs will lose themselves ship lines, murderous mutineers and a local homestead and country gardens have been 16 Davidson Whaling Station and wild landscape. Location: Green Cape in the lighthouse, commissioned connection to Charles Darwin. Location: Main restored to their former glory and enhanced by (Loch Garra) Peer into the lives of 19th century Road, Green Cape, Ben Boyd National Park When astronauts on the International in 1881 (guided tours available). If you Street, Merimbula (opposite RSL Club) the current owner who delights in sharing tales whalers at Davidson Whaling Station located at Access: Sealed and unsealed, 2WD dry Space Station peer at the Australian really want to feel the splendid isolation Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday & Sunday tall and true with visitors to his home. Kiah Inlet, Twofold Bay. An impressive site with weather Accommodation book online coastline at night, the twinkling lights of there is overnight accommodation on site from 1.30pm – 4pm Location: Monaro Highway, Bombala preserved homesteads, maintained gardens http://bit.ly/gclight Tours: Christmas and cities give way to untouched wilderness in the restored Head Keepers Quarters. http://bit.ly/oldsm Phone: 02 6458 3042 http://bit.ly/burnima and whale processing relics by the water. Easter holidays, daily at 3pm (excluding halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Location: 9kms offshore from Narooma Getting there: Travel 18kms south of Eden on 7 How Tuesday and Wednesday). $25 families, $10 By dawn’s light this is revealed to be a More information: http://bit.ly/mihistory Bega Pioneers Museum 12 Early Settlers Hut Delegate is the Princes Highway then turn at Edrom Road. did scenic Bega become the breadbasket (and adult, $5 pensioner/child. spectacular and irreplaceable network Or call Narooma Information Centre a small town rich in historical importance. One Travel 11km then turn at Boyd Rd. cheese platter) of southern NSW? The museum QHKVUOQUVUKIPKƂECPVUKVGUKUVJG'CTN[5GVVNGTU of national parks, dotted with dramatic 1800 240 003 http://bit.ly/lochgarra 20 houses one of the state’s largest collections Hut located on the Bonang Highway. The hut is Genoa Heritage Walk & Old mountains and lapped by sapphire blue )GPQCYCUƂTUVUGVVNGF waters teeming with life. 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Wheelchair http://bit.ly/acwgold Delegate Phone: 02 6458 4622 - Bombala the next best thing is to travel through From Merimbula: Drive north on Sapphire accessible http://bit.ly/walkboyd the untouched beauty of Australia’s Visitor Information Centre 4 Coast Drive for 14 kilometres, turn right onto 18 Coastal Wilderness by car to discover Bermagui Historical 14 Bittangabee Ruins Society Heritage Museum Bournda Road, then Eden Killer Sheltered Bitangabee Bay was sites unchanged for centuries among left on Scott’s Hut awe inspiring natural backdrops. Explore Uncover the history of local Bombala Historic Railway Whale Museum crucial in the construction of the KPFWUVTKGUUWEJCUƂUJKPI Road. Follow it to The Killer Whales of Eden the trails and tales of pioneers. Discover Green Cape lighthouse, 6km to the CPFDKIICOGCPINKPIQTƃKEM the carpark. were famous pods of wild south, in the early 1800s. 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Railway farewelled Opening Times: Friday, famous killer whale was Park Getting there: Turn at Edrom its last train over 1 Saturday and Sunday, 10am to Old Tom, you can see his skeleton Road 18kms south of Eden then travel Central Tilba and Tilba 30 years ago, The history of Central Tilba 2pm Phone: 02 6493 4108 and other amazing whale memorabilia at the for 6km, turn right onto the unsealed Green Tilba however the site still attracts begins 60 million years ago, when the Eden Killer Whale Museum. Opening times: Cape Road, and follow it for 15km until you the attention of many train enthusiasts. The imposing Mount Gulaga was an active 5 Tathra Wharf 9.15am – 3.45pm Monday – Saturday 11.15am reach Bittangabee Access Road. site remains relatively intact and is now used volcano. The entire village of Central Tilba Built in 1860, Tathra Wharf is one of the last – 3.45pm Sundays. Extended trading hours Fees: National Park access fees apply. to distil lavender. Location: Mahratta Street, JCUDGGPENCUUKƂGFD[VJG0CVKQPCN6TWUV wooden sea wharves on the east coast. over Christmas Holidays (closed Christmas Day) More information: http://bit.ly/acwruins Bombala Phone: 02 6458 4426 9.15am – 4.45pm http://bit.ly/wildtom Davidson Whaling Station Cocora Beach, Eden 21 Mallacoota World War II Aboriginal history Biamanga National Park, 25 Boyds Tower, Ben Boyd National Park Bunker Museum During World War II, Cape Howe to Shoalhaven River and kilometres north of Bega. Unsealed Mallacoota was a crucial link in the defence of inland to the Great Dividing Range road suitable for 2WD, viewing platforms are Australia’s east coast. The Royal Australian Air Aboriginal culture, through its spiritual, law and wheelchair accessible. http://bit.ly/mumbulla Force established an Advanced Operations lore constructs, expresses that Aboriginal people 30 Base housed in the Mallacoota Bunker with have occupied this land since time memorial, Aragunnu Walking Trail There is a large midden here, created by a radar station on nearby Gabo Island. The referred to as the dreamtime. The dreamtime EQWPVNGUU[GCTUQHƂUJKPICPFUJCTKPI museum’s unique bunker houses many wartime in Aboriginal culture is the time of creation, meals beside the rich sea. It is protected artifacts, photographs and documents. when the great spirits created the people and by a raised 250m boardwalk which has Location: 51 Airport Road, Mallacoota Phone: the animals and formed the landscape. The interpretive signage and is wheelchair 0459 437 474 http://bit.ly/acwbunk Yuin People occupied land from Cape Howe accessible. Mimosa Rocks to the Shoalhaven River and inland to the 22 National Park 27 kilometres Gabo Island and Lighthouse Great Dividing Range. Within this range are Standing 47 metres high on the eastern tip north of Tathra. Campsites available. approximately 13 tribal groupings that relate of Victoria, Gabo Island is rich in cultural and to a dreamtime story involving Bundoola 2 earth history. Built in 1858 from distinctive The Killer Whale Trail (Great Rain Spirit), Oobligaa (Great Rain Spirit), Twofold Bay was the site of early contact pink granite, it is the only operating island Mirrigaal (The Creator) and Doowanga (The between the Katungal (sea coast people) and lighthouse in Victoria. Location: 13km from Bird Spirit Man). whalers or pastoralists. They were valued crew Mallacoota by boat or plane. Access is weather Dreamtime stories, passed down through many members of the whaling boats dependent. Opening times: Accommodation 1 generations, is a part of cultural lore and also of Eden for many reasons, not Old Tom, Eden Killer Whale Museum and tours must be booked prior to arrival. informs the people’s law. It teaches of right and least because they had a deep Phone: Parks Victoria in Mallacoota wrong and of consequence for one’s actions. understanding of the wild killer whales 3 03 5161 9500 http://bit.ly/gabolight The population was thought to be around 11,000 who were their Beowas (brothers). 23 Orbost Slab Hut Built in 1872 when Captain Cook sighted Aboriginal People Various Two 4 as a family dwelling near the junction of the on the beaches near Gulaga (Mount Dromedary), wheel drive, some unsealed roads. Buchan and Snowy Rivers, the Orbost Slab but by the mid-1800s population is thought to http://bit.ly/acwkwt Hut is a remarkable Visitor Information Centre have been reduced to around 600 survivors as a today. Location: Nicholson St, Orbost. TGUWNVQHKPVTQFWEGFFKUGCUGCPFEQPƃKEV Ngaran Ngaran Opening times: 9am – 5pm daily; winter: In this region descendants retain a strong Cultural Tours Immerse yourself in the Aboriginal 9.30am – 4.30pm Phone: 03 5154 2424 cultural connection to waterways and the landscape of Australia’s Coastal Wilderness. culture of the Yuin Nation with a guided 24 Orbost Museum The collection This place is interwoven with dreaming stories stay in the Narooma region. 30 covers the period from 1880 to 1960. about travel routes, food sources, camping Narooma 0408 272 121 Location: East Gippsland Shire Business sites, meeting and ceremonial places. http://bit.ly/nntour Centre, Ruskin Street, Orbost. 29 Opening times: 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday Bataluk Cultural Trail The Bundian Way Story The best way to experience aspects of Phone: 03 5154 5120 The Bundian Way is a 265 km ancient Aboriginal walking track that connects the highest part of early Aboriginal history in East Gippsland 7 25 PS Curlip II A beautiful hardwood the continent to the coast. This walking track is to explore the Bataluk Cultural Trail. Highlights river queen styled on a historic paddle steamer pre-dates Egypt’s pyramids or Asia’s silk roads include shell middens at Cape Conran, Buchan that was once an integral part of life on the by tens of thousands of years. The track played Caves near Orbost, Bairnsdale’s Scar Tree (Howitt Snowy River. The original paddle steamer was an important part in trade and cultural activities, Park) and Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place. 5 used for social functions, towing produce and bringing together the Aborigines from the http://bit.ly/bataluk Tathra Wharf facilitating bar crossings. Location: Brodribb broader region for ceremonies associated Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place River Jetty, Marlo Cruises: One and a half hour with whaling in Twofold Bay in the spring and Take a guided or self guided tour through this ETWKUGUQPURGEKƂGFVKOGUCPFFC[U#XCKNCDNG Bogong moth hunting in the high country museum and cultural centre. Named after one of for charter cruises. Bookings: Email info@ during summer. http://bit.ly/bundian VJGƂXGENCPUQHVJG)WPCKMWTPCKKPUKFG[QWYKNN paddle-steamercurlip.com.au or phone ƂPFVTCFKVKQPCNJWPVKPICPFƂIJVKPIYGCRQPUDCTM 8 27 0411 395 903 http://bit.ly/curlip2 Monaroo Bobberer Gudu canoes, baskets and contemporary Gunaikurnai art. (Jigamy Farm) Aboriginal Culture Centre 37 – 53 Dalamahoy Street, Bairnsdale. 26 Monaroo Bobberer Gudu is a keeping place 9 10 111 Cann River & Point Hicks (03) 5152 1891 6 Lighthouse %CPP4KXGTCTGCYCUƂTUV for Aboriginal information and cultural settled in 1880. Two historic buildings artifacts. It is also the gateway to the Bundian worthwhile visiting are the original Noorinbee Way. Audio visual and static displays give an Schoolhouse located 7km up the Monaro Hwy insight into cultural heritage of local Aboriginal and the Cann River Hotel which still contains people and the shared history of the Bundian relics from the SS Riverina which foundered Way. The Keeping Place is set on bushland 27 off the coast in 1927. Driving to Point Hicks adjacent to Pambula Lake at Jigamy Farm and 28 121 131 Lighthouse through Croajingolong National includes a cultural loop walk , bunang ring Park today the landscape looks much the same (ceremonial performance place) and a bush as when Captain Cook’s lieutenant Zachariah trail through Ben Boyd National Park that 14 31 *KEMUƂTUVUKIJVGFVJKURQKPVKP$WKNVKP travels from the Keeping Place to Quondola 1890, the light house remains open for tours Point (6km return). Address: Jigamy Farm, 155 with camping and cottage accommodation Princess Highway, Eden. Phone: 02 6495 6343 166 available. Location: Croajingalong National Opening times: Monday – Friday or by 17 Park. Bookings: For cottage accommodation appointment. http://bit.ly/jigamy phone 03 5156 0432. http://bit.ly/hicky For light house tours phone: 03 5158 4268. 28 Bundian Way Gallery The gallery 18 For the Cann River Information Centre highlights the heritage of the trail and sheds phone 03 5158 6465 light on the ongoing cultural connections to the land and sea of the Aboriginal people of tthehe region through art. Location: The Old BaBankn Building, 66a Bombala Street, Delegate. OpeningOpe hours: 10am – 3pm Monday to FriFriday,d 11am – 3pm Saturday. 19 hthttp://bit.ly/bundianarttp 29 Biamanga Cultural Area A placep of sacred initiation and dreaming for tthehe Yuin People, particularly men, Mumbulla FallFallss is known for its peaceful tranquility. 20

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