Marlo - Places to See

Fishing in the Area
Anyone planning to spend time in Marlo, or to go fishing in the Marlo area, should obtain a copy of Discovering Marlo and the Snowy River Estuary, an excellent brochure with a very detailed map, information about fishing spots and sandbanks, and even a scale for measuring the legal size of fish, published by the Conservation Forests & Lands.

It has a number of slipways including the historic Corringle Slips. Access to the Corringle Slips is via Corringle Road which leaves the Princes Highway at Newmerella south of Orbost. The Discovering Marlo map notes that 'The Corringle Slips were built by Samuel Richardson and sons during the time when the Orbost Shipping Company was operating. The Slips were washed away in the 1893 floods and reassembled by Martin Jorgensen who then became a part owner of the Slips.'

The Slips have camping facilities, toilets, a picnic area and are known as a good fishing area.

Sightseeing
If you approach Marlo from Orbost the road follows the Snowy River and passes an unusual area of warm temperate rainforest with vines, lianas and lilly pilly trees on the far-side bank of the river. This pocket of rainforest is home to bell-birds and thornbills.

It is near here that it is easy to see the impact of flooding on the river banks (the Snowy has been known to flood three times in a year). There is a point where the sheer cliffs beside the river have been whittled away into a series of small outcrops.

As a township Marlo is really for fishermen and holiday makers. It is a sleepy and undistinguished. However, beyond the town?s jetty and boat ramp the Marlo-Cape Conran Road offers a number of superb lookout vantage points where visitors can see where the Snowy River reaches the sea. The sand dunes across the estuary and the opening to the sea are dramatic.

Cabbage Tree Creek and Cape Conran
Beyond the Marlo shopping centre, on the road to Cabbage Tree Creek and Cape Conran (19 km east of Marlo), there is a substantial community which consists of holiday homes.

Cape Conran Reserve is an attractive rocky peninsula which has a pleasant 2.5 km clifftop walk and is ideal for swimming, fishing, diving and boating. The Department of Conservation, Forests & Lands has a sheet map of the area which is available at either the Cann River or the Orbost Information Centres.