Hidden within the steep entanglement of the NSW Illawarra Escarpment lies a small but magical place – 'Nameless' Sylvan Reserve.

The first Europeans to venture here would have been searching for Red Cedar – the tall, majestic rainforest trees that turn copper red when flushed with new growth.

Known by sawmillers as 'red gold' during the early days of colonial settlement, they were highly prized on international markets and for many years were the most valuable trees in NSW.
Now, along with the Illawarra subtropical rainforests it once dominated, it's a rarity protected only in a handful of places, including 'Nameless'.

This mesmerising place also hides Irwin's Creek, a playground for Freshwater Crayfish, Platypus and Swamp Wallabies.
Below the rainforest canopy is an understory filled with native vines, lianas, shrubs and scramblers, and high up in the trees perch epiphytic ferns and orchids – plants that take nutrients from the bark and leaf litter of other plants.

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