Bunyip State Park
Overview
 
Bunyip State Park is a 166 sqkm state park 65 kilometres (40.4 mi) east of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, near the town of Gembrook
Gembrook, Victoria
Gembrook is a town in Victoria, Australia, 54 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Cardinia...

. The area was used for logging from 1898 until 1990, and was turned into a state park two years later. The park is named after the bunyip
Bunyip
The bunyip, or kianpraty, is a large mythical creature from Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes....

, an Aboriginal mythical creature.

The terrain in the park is mostly dense forest and swampy heathland, with Prickly Tea-tree
Leptospermum continentale
Leptospermum continentale, commonly known as Prickly Tea-tree, is a shrub species that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It grows to between 1 and 2 metres high and has narrow leaves that are about 10 mm long and 1 to 3 mm wide...

, Mountain Ash
Eucalyptus regnans
Eucalyptus regnans, known variously by the common names Mountain Ash, Victorian Ash, Swamp Gum, Tasmanian Oak or Stringy Gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to southeastern Australia, in Tasmania and Victoria...

 and Mealy Stringybark present.

Camping is available at Nash Creek Camping Area and Dyers Picnic Ground under towering Mountain Ash.
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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Thank god for money.

 
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