Kooyang Yana – Kooyang Walk Full Day Tour

We invite you to UNESCO World Heritage listed Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, near Portland in Western Victoria to experiences traditional Aboriginal aquaculture. The tour will take you on a journey into the lifecycle of kooyang (eels) and their importance to the Gunditjmara people, dating back over 6,000 years. See ancient stone kooyang (eel) traps and stone channels, stone house sites and eel smoking trees, as your cultural guide shows you how the Gunditjmara worked the landscape, with evidence of traditional and modern farming and aquaculture.

Visit Lake Gorrie for a look at historic drystone walls dating to the 1800’s that were used for sheep washes. After a light lunch, enjoy a guided cultural walk of the Tae Rak (Lake Condah) wetlands, seeing the complex aquaculture system and an area of lava flow featuring two weirs and a dam associated with trapping and holding kooyang.

This tour operates all year round.