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 * About
   
   * About the Bluff
   * Acknowledgements
   * Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary
   * Who are we
 * Wadawurrung
   
   * Housing
   * Language
   * Middens
   * Music & Dance
   * Plants & Game
   * Tools & Technology
 * Conservation
   
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   * Coastal Use
   * Litter
   * Pests
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   * Get Involved
 * Life
   
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WELCOME TO THE BARWON BLUFF

Welcome to the new website of the Friends of the Bluff and the Barwon Bluff
Marine Sanctuary.

The Barwon Heads Bluff and surrounds is a special place. It is a place where the
Barwon River (Wadarurrung: barwong), estuary enters the cool waters of Bass
Strait and the Southern Ocean.

It is a place where wind, tides, and waves have shaped the coast over time and
created a wide diversity of habitats for animals and plants to live.

To find an Elephant Snail hidden beneath a rock, to watch the Bull Kelp sway
back and forth with the waves, or to explore the magic gardens in the rockpools,
is a chance to both glimpse nature’s beauty and to also understand the
importance of protecting our special places by the sea (Wadarurrung: warri),
including the magnificent Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary.

Above the water both the Bluff itself and along the coast and river
(Wadarurrung: yaluk) are dunes, saltmarshes, and Moonah woodlands that provide
rich habitats for a diversity of terrestrial plants, birds, and other animals.

Explore this website to find out about these amazing habitats and diverse range
of plants and animals that live here and that share our special place by the
sea!

Learn more about the Bluff







EXPLORE LIFE ON THE BLUFF

The Bluff and beyond is filled with life – on land, in the skies, and below the
waves. From large seabirds to the smallest crab, there are many life forms to
learn about.

Click on the buttons below to explore each part of the bluff. Each page features
a selection of plants, animals and algae with images and descriptions to help
you identify and learn more about the life ‘Living on the Edge’ of the Barwon
Bluff and beyond.

Explore All Life
Explore Land
Explore Sea
Explore Sky







WADAWURRUNG

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Wadawurrung People, the Traditional
Custodians of Wadawurrung Country.

Wadawurrung Country encompasses land from the Great Dividing Range in the North
to the Coast country in the south, from the Werribee river in the east, and
along the Great Ocean Road in the west to Aireys Inlet.

We acknowledge their continuing care for the land, sky, and sea.

Wadawurrung people have walked this land for hundreds of generations, living
with the land. The Traditional name for Barwon Bluff is Koloait, meaning ‘to the
sea’, and was an important meeting and living place for the Wadawurrung people.
Here, they gathered and feasted on shellfish, eels, and other seafoods. There
were resources for weaving and crafting

Explore Wadawurrung Heritage







EXPLORE HABITATS

Plants and animals occupy many different habitats around the dynamic Barwon
Bluff, from high aloft the imposing limestone cliffs to the depths of the Marine
Sanctuary.

There is the tussocky glare of dunes and the dabbled haunts of Moonah woodland.

The turbulent sweep of a Bass Strait beach, algae ringed rockpools, and the
scrabble of basalt boulders.

There are the shifting sandflats of the Barwon estuary, cliff face crevices and
outcrops, and subtidal ledges, gutters, overhangs and sweeping kelp forests.

All these wild places provide opportunities for plants and animals to forage,
roost, grow, reproduce and thrive.

Discover the diversity of these remarkable habitats and the interactions of the
flora and fauna that live there.

Browse Habitats







LEARN AND EXPLORE

Learn and explore the wonders of the Bluff with our range of educational
materials; from online activities including jigsaws, memory, quizzes and more.

Explore our virtual habitats, hear about some marine and environmental story
books, download our educational packages for teachers and parents or guardians
and more.

Teachers can find a range of resources linked to the Victorian Curriculum. Our
educational section is not just for students though – anybody can learn and
explore the wonders of the Bluff.

Browse Online Activities
Browse Storybooks
Resources for Educators


Drone footage by Steve Heather

ABOUT
WADAWURRUNG
CONSERVATION
LIFE
LEARN + EXPLORE
CONTACT



THE WADAWURRUNG PEOPLE ARE THE TRADITIONAL OWNERS OF THIS LAND AND WE PAY OUR
RESPECTS TO THEIR ELDERS PAST, PRESENT AND EMERGING.

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