Managing our waterways requires a deep understanding of how they function and watching how they perform under the extreme pressure of a flood can be very revealing. We have just had an enormous 3 day precipitation event where 25% of our annual rain poured out of the sky. Observing the resultant flood patterns will inform future decisions.
Waterways at Yambulla make up nearly 20% of the total area under our care, a whopping 225 hectares. And, like all the areas we look after, our mission is to make them the best they can be. All our waterways have experienced some level of degradation since colonisation and require interventions to help heal them. In some places this is minor work, others quite significant.
We are guided by First Nations knowledge holders who see our vast Wet Tussock Meadows (an Endangered Ecological Community) as the landscape’s kidneys, filtering the water to the benefit of our downstream neighbours. And we are inspired and guided by the works of Peter Andrews OAM and his methodology of reducing the energy of floods. We also have friends in California who teach us about the way beavers manage their waterways.
Our interventions are considered and holistic. We are super excited to see, once the flood waters have subsided, what worked and what didn't. Watch this space.
Feel at home in our secluded, architect-designed off-grid guest lodge. Surrounded by nothing but nature as far as the eye can see.
Cool and breezy inthe summer and cosy with wood-fired central heatingin the winter.
We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples as the first inhabitants and traditional custodians of the Yambulla valley and surrounding areas.
We recognise and value their continuing connection to the land and culture.
Managing our waterways requires a deep understanding of how they function and watching how they perform under the extreme pressure of a flood can be very revealing. We have just had an enormous 3 day precipitation event where 25% of our annual rain poured down from the sky. Documenting the resultant flood patterns will inform future decisions.
Managing our waterways requires a deep understanding of how they function and watching how they perform under the extreme pressure of a flood can be very revealing. We have just had an enormous 3 day precipitation event where 25% of our annual rain poured out of the sky. Observing the resultant flood patterns will inform future decisions.
Waterways at Yambulla make up nearly 20% of the total area under our care, a whopping 225 hectares. And, like all the areas we look after, our mission is to make them the best they can be. All our waterways have experienced some level of degradation since colonisation and require interventions to help heal them. In some places this is minor work, others quite significant.
We are guided by First Nations knowledge holders who see our vast Wet Tussock Meadows (an Endangered Ecological Community) as the landscape’s kidneys, filtering the water to the benefit of our downstream neighbours. And we are inspired and guided by the works of Peter Andrews OAM and his methodology of reducing the energy of floods. We also have friends in California who teach us about the way beavers manage their waterways.
Our interventions are considered and holistic. We are super excited to see, once the flood waters have subsided, what worked and what didn't. Watch this space.