2 The story of Granite and Bega Cheese - Sapphire Coast

ecause the native forests were cleared by early European settlers for farming and
grazing. Almost all of the cleared land between the coast and the escarpment was
formerly forests growing on granite based soils.
Google Earth
The cleared land in this Google Earth image shows the area of the granite based
soils used for dairy farming.
The granite breaks down as water penetrates joints and fractures and rots the
feldspars and smooths out sharp edges to produce the characteristic clusters of
rounded boulders, known as tors.
Dairy farm on granite landscape, Coolagolite
In the high country of the escarpment, granite tors are scattered through trees and
grassland along the Snowy Mountains Highway between the top of Brown Mountain
and the Maclaughlin River east of Nimmitabel. Further south in South East Forest
National Park, a particularly beautiful site to enjoy forested granite landforms is about
25 km east of Bombala at Myanba Creek, with its falls and lookouts.