Sight · Wilsons Promontory National Park
A short walk to five graves from the Prom’s early settlement.
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Wilsons Promontory Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Wilsons Promontory National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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The Walk to Big Drift“You're approaching Stockyard, where the walk to Big Drift begins. The return is about four and a half kilometres and two hours: a firm track through bush, then a steep climb in loose sand.”
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Yanakie Cemetery is a small historic burial ground in a wooded clearing near Stockyard and the old Yanakie Station homestead. Five people are buried here, giving the Prom’s early settlement story an unusually personal scale. Their deaths were largely linked to the remote, harsh conditions faced by early settlers. This is a brief heritage detour, not a major attraction to build a day around.
A signposted track runs from Stockyard to the cemetery. The easy Grade 2 walk is about 600 m and 20 minutes return, so plan a short out-and-back rather than expecting to pull up beside the graves. The burial ground sits among trees, with a commemorative display for some context.
The appeal is the small scale: a handful of burials from the Prom’s early days, reached on foot from Stockyard. Take a moment to read the display and look around the wooded clearing. You will not need long here; it works best as a thoughtful history stop while exploring the northern end of the park.
Wildlife
18 sightingsWedge-tailed EagleMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
29 sightingsKoalaMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
774 sightingsBare-nosed WombatMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
291 sightingsEastern Grey KangarooMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
512 sightingsSwamp WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
20 sightingsIndochinese Hog DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Wilsons Promontory. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
Keep exploring
ModerateBig Drift Walking Track4.5 km · 2 hr · 0.4 km awayA bush track to a steep climb onto the Prom’s shifting dunes.
EasyYanakie Cemetery Walk1.2 km · 20 min · 0.5 km awayA short walk to the Prom’s small early-settler cemetery.
EasyShallow Inlet Walk0.9 km · 30 min · 4.8 km awayA tea-tree gully opens straight onto the inlet shore.
Picnic area · 0.2 km awayStockyard Picnic AreaA leafy picnic pause by the northern entrance.
Sight · 2.2 km awayBig DriftA steep sand climb into an inland dune field.
Store · 6.1 km awayYanakie General StoreGet fuel, groceries, bait and takeaway before driving in.
Sight · 7.7 km awayMillers LandingA 4 km woodland walk to the world's southernmost mangroves.Parkwolf’s Wilsons Promontory ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
