Galada Tamboore

If you feel like an urban adventure - but in the bush, you might like to visit the Galada Tamboore area, it’s a little known quiet and beautiful area located mostly behind an industrial and housing estate in Campbellfield. Cryptic KangarooSituated on a 93 hectare floodplain the Merri Creek meanders through it past sedimentary and basalt escarpments and gullies containing remnant river red gums. At the top of the escarpments are indigenous shrublands and grasslands. The area is regionally significant for its reptiles (particularly snakes!!), geology and aboriginal archeological sites. You can access the area via the end of Somerset Drive or Hatty Court, Campbellfield.

There are two beautiful areas next to the Merri Creek that can be accessed by the pathways. If you enter through the Hatty Court Reserve and take the path heading south about 350 meters, look to the left and you will find a beautiful little gully called Yellow Box Gully, named this for the trees growing in the gully beside the creek. This is one of the best spots in the area to see little birds on one visit we found Brown-headed Honeyeaters in the flowering Yellow Box, Spotted Pardalote, White-browed Scrubwren, Grey Fantail, Superb Fairywren, Brown Thornbills and Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo have also been seen in this area.

After you are finished here you can cross the creek and head north on the other side. Take the pathway heading through the grasslands, look out for European Skylark and Australasian Pipits. Galada TambooreContinue on passing the turnoff to the left. You will then come to another turnoff take the path to the right which will lead down to the creek. Here you will find the creek running under a rocky escarpment with tall Eucalypts growing beside the creek. You can rock hop across the creek to the grasslands on the other side where you may find Brown Quail or a mob of Eastern Grey Kangaroos. Look out for the Brown Falcon which likes to rest in the trees here or it may be hunting along the cliffs. You will probably see or hear Australian Reed Warblers and Golden Headed Cisticola.

When you are finished take one of the pathways back up the west bank both which lead to Hatty Court.