Yarram Information
Yarram or Yarram - Yarram as it was originally known; has its origin from the aboriginal term meaning ‘Plenty of Water’ or ‘Waterfalls’. It is a small isolated township of just over 2,100 people situated 220 kilometres from Melbourne. The low lying swamp type lands with ample rainfall brought about a rich dairy area that supplies milk products throughout Australia.
Today, Yarram is noted for its proximity to 90 Mile Beach, Port Albert and the Tarra-Bulga National Park.
For the history buffs, the site’s first industry was established by John Carpenter in 1857 with a Flour and Saw Mill built on the Tarra River. The town is home to the Regent Theatre, dating back to 1928 and an early yet intact Wattle and Daub cottage known as Hawthorn Bank.
Local to the town is a Scenic Golf Course, home to a large population of Kangaroos and an extensive number of the native ‘Black Boy’ plants, an unusually slow growing species that is said to grow only 30cms every century.
For the nature lovers, the local area is littered with trails leading through Tarra-Bulga National Park, 1230 hectares of forest with 33 species of fern, some growing to ten metres in height, and a variety of trees including Myrtle Beech, Mountain Ash and Blackwood creating a canopy the reaches 60 metres high, sheltering Moss, Fungi, Birds and Native Animals such as Wallabies, Platypuses, Wombats, Bandicoots and a host of others.
There are ample bushwalking and horse riding trails through the region or you can hire out Gypsy styled wagons for a more peaceful way to discover the area’s natural beauty.
Close by, there is the sheltered inlet at McLoughlin’s Beach where Swimming, Surfing and Fishing are the sports of choice. For the real surfing enthusiasts there is the perfect waves at 90 Mile Beach, noted for some of the finest Surfing conditions in the state.
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