Bunyip State Park Tree Fern and Buttongrass Walks

Start walk at Mortimer Picnic Ground Mel Keymap R12 09:00. This is off Gembrook Tonimbuk Rd 7 km from Gembrook. The walk follows a 1 km nature trail then commences a steady 135m climb through varied forest types to a ridge on Steege Rd. Follow the ridge then down dense and beautiful tree fern gullies to Ferres Walk Track and a bunyip-inhabited lake. Follow this track for about 3 km of undulations to the start. Total 10 km grade M.

Lunch at Mortimer's, then the option of returning or driving on a further 4 km to Camphora Picnic Ground and a 3.5 km E flat 1 hour circuit through  button grass, rare in Victoria and other swampy land vegetation.

Walk will be deferred if heavy rain is forecast.