Melba Gully State Park
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Melba Gully State Park was formed to protect a small pocket of temperate rainforest in the Otway Ranges near Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia. The Script error: No such module "convert". park is extremely valuable as one of the few pockets of natural old-growth Otway Ranges rainforests to survive the logging and subsequent fires, making it a crucial resource for the efforts to regenerate the original Otway Ranges rainforests. The park now forms part of the Great Otway National Park.
The gully has a dense cover of myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii), blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) and tree-ferns, with an understorey of low ferns and mosses. Glow worms (Arachnocampa otwayensis),[1] which are the bioluminescent larvae of small flies known as fungus gnats, can be seen at night along the stream banks and walking tracks.[2][3][4]
The park has few facilities due to its small size, but it has a picnic ground and basic picnic facilities, with the main attraction being the 35 minute Madsens Track Nature Walk.[3]
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