Itineraries and Tours
Our newly developed Visit Greater Hume website has a section on Planning Trips and Tours where you will find 14 different tours around our region. Choose something that suits your interests and time frames. There is something for everyone!
This month we have featured one of our favourite spots in Greater Hume.
Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre, Burrumbuttock
Established in 1995, Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre is set on an old stock reserve and public watering place. As you walk around the 4-hectare park, you will pass a large dam, wetlands, natural woodland and native garden beds. These features offer a great diversity of native plants and wildlife habitat found in Box-Gum grassy woodlands.
Developed and maintained by local volunteers, Wirraminna presents a model for local Landcare projects that aim to restore native vegetation and wetlands on farms to redress problems of declining biodiversity. The gardens and woodland contain many locally rare native shrubs, wildflowers and grasses that attract a range of animals such as native bees, frogs, skinks, many bird species, possums and the threatened Squirrel Glider.
It is a popular outing for clubs and organisations, and many visitors to the region call in to explore the gardens and learn about our local environment. Interpretive signage and a self-guided walk around the park tell the environmental story. A strong environmental education program is run every year for regional schools. There is a picnic area with a free electric barbecue beside the picturesque dam. The remnant natural Box-Gum woodland is being restored towards its original diversity, with reintroduction of many of the fast-disappearing wildflowers and grasses of the district. A seed production area produces seed of many of these plants to allow more extensive grassland restoration in the future.
The rammed earth Discovery Centre is used by school and community groups and contains an aquarium for native fish and a colony of threatened Southern Corroboree frogs. Wirraminna is open all year round to the general public, with the Discovery Centre open by appointment.
For information and tours contact 02 6029 3185 or www.wirraminna.org.au. The Centre also offers picnic area with a free electric barbecue beside the picturesque dam.
Wirraminna Environmental Education Centre, Burrumbuttock
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