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| | Walkabout - Ferntree Gully, Upper |
 | | Upper Ferntree Gully is 35 km east of Melbourne along the Burwood Highway. |
 | | The combination of rainfall and rich volcanic soils renders the soil fertile and the ranges are cloaked in vast tracts of forests and fern gullies, as well as some distinguished and renowned gardens. |
 | | It is noted for its walking tracks, its views of Melbourne, its ferneries, eucalypt forests, picnic areas, birdlife (including lyrebirds, crimson rosellas and eastern whipbirds), mammals (including wallabies, bandicoots, echidnas and possums) and its flora, including 47 species of native orchids, native grasses, eucalypts and shrubs such as bush pea and austral indigo. |
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