Wildlife and Wildflowers await your discovery along the Snowy Valleys Way
Australian native flora and fauna is abundant along the Snowy Valleys Way. Discover rare, exotic wildlife and all of natures wonders from Gundagai through to Beechworth and throughout all the towns and valleys of the Snowy Valleys Way.
Fauna
Grey Kangaroo, Black Wallabies, Emu's, Common Wombats, Short Beaked Echidna's, Superb Lyrebirds, abundant native birds, variety of Rreptiles.
Flora
River Red Gums along watercourses, Swards of kangaroo grass in open roadside areas, Snow Gums on higher elevations, Foothill forests of Peppermint Gums and stringybark Trees, Box ironbark forests around Beechworth
Profiles
Tumut Riverglade Wetlands - Explore the natural wetlands and discover an amazing array of native birdlife.
Blowering Dam - The Snowy Valleys Way is a scenic delight with stunning views over mighty waterways, cool flowing rivers and mountain streams.
Yellow Banksia - The flowers are pretty as a picture and all year round you can discover a range of fauna from carpets of wildflowers in the high country to a cottage rose in the many gardens open to the public at different times of the year along the Snowy Valleys Way.
Yarrangobilly Caves - Where else could you see such underground wonders such as the Bath of Venus in Jillabenan Cave.
Some Hot Spots for wildlife viewing include:
Gundagai - Swift parrots, Brown Treecreeper, Black chinned Honeyeater and Diamond Firetails at Doctors Hill.
Talbingo - Blowering Dam, Kangaroos, Emus, Echidna, Wombats and Birdlife.
Laurel Hill - Wild Brumbies, Pilot Hill Arboretum, Sugar Pine Walk.
McPherson's Plains - Brumbies, Tawny Frogmouth, Kangaroos and rare Alpine Orchids.
Mannus Lake - Abundant Birdlife.
Tumbarumba - Brumbies roam the hills between Tumbarumba and Batlow.
Khancoban - Abundant Birdlife and Kangaroos on the golf course at dusk.
Shelley - Kangaroos, Emu's and Wombats any time of the day.
Murray River - Murray River Road Reserves - variety of birdlife along Australia's major waterway.
Walwa - Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park - many rare species of plant including Fan Grevillea.
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