Galada Tamboore is a peaceful and beautiful little heard of area located behind industrial and housing estates in Campbelfield. Galada Tamboore is the Wurundjeri for 'creek waterhole'. The area was originally reserved by Melbourne Water as a retarding basing but it now forms part of the new Merri Creek Parklands. Situated 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.

Currently the area can be accessed from the end of Somerset Drive or Hatty Court. A bike path is being developed which connects with the existing Merri Creek bike path, it will also connect the Whittlesea Gardens on the other side of the Hume Freeway.

One of the best areas to look for birds is 'Yellow Box Gully' to get there enter through Hatty Crt. turn right onto the bike path and walk for a couple of hundred metres, the gully can be seen on the left. The best view into the gully is from the northern edge. Over the last few years surveying this area we have seen, Satin Flycatcher, Rufous Whistler, Golden Whistler, Brown-Headed Honeyeater and Brown Goshawk. Red-browed Finch, Superb Fairywren, Silvereye, Spotted Pardalote and Grey Fantail are usually found here.

In the grasslands along the top of the escarpment Australasian and Skylark are common, also occasionally seen or heard are Brown Quail. In spring, when the grass is overgrown, Golden Headed Cisticola call from the top of the long grass, Horsfields Bronze-cuckoos can also be heard in spring, in winter there are Flame Robins. Australian Reedwarbler call from the reed beds during spring and summer and the the occasional, duck, moorhen, cormorant or heron is seen along the creek. There is the possibility of snipe at the Barry Road wetlands.

Further north, a pathway leads down to the creek which can be crossed, by rock hopping, when the water levels are low.

Survey route for Galada Tamboore