EstuaryWatch Data Portal

The Gellibrand River Estuary is approximately 8.7km's in length and flows through a variety of different landscape types before it enters the ocean directly into the Twelve Apostles Marine National Park. It has a catchment area of 2346Ha.

• the Princetown Wetlands-Gellibrand estuary are listed in the Directory of Important Wetlands for Australia. 
• significant birds can be found on the Gellibrand River estuary such as the Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus)- Status: Endangered (IUCN, Adv List) and the Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)- Status: Vulnerable (Adv List).
• a significant fish species found on the Gellibrand River is the Australian Grayling.
• Estuarine Wetland Ecological Vegetation Class is Depleted in the Otway Ranges bioregion
• Riparian Forest Ecological Vegetation Class (Vulnerable)
• Swamp Scrub Ecological Vegetation Class (Endangered)
• camping
• game  hunting
• motor boating
• non-motor boating
• picnics and barbecues
• recreat

• degraded estuarine vegetation
• degraded water quality
• disturbance of acid sulphate soils
• intermittently open estuary
• invasive fauna
• livestock access
• reduced floodplain and wetland connectivity