Melba Gully State Park
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox protected area 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 Template: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),<ref name="Baker 2010">Template:Cite journal</ref> which are the bioluminescent larvae of small flies known as fungus gnats, can be seen at night along the stream banks and walking tracks.<ref name="Catrice 1996">Template:Citation</ref><ref name ="PV Parknotes Melba Gully">Template:Citation</ref><ref name ="PV Melba Gully">Template:Citation</ref>
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.<ref name ="PV Parknotes Melba Gully">Template:Citation</ref>