Australia 2011 - Day 3, Part 3 - Rainforest Walk

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get." - Frederick Douglass

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Australia 2011
Day 3 - 31st July - Rainforest Walk (Part 3)

We then went for a rainforest walk. I think this was my first time in a temperate rainforest.


About Ngatanwarr Maits Rest

The rainforest walk was particularly interesting as you could see rainforest and eucalyptus trees side by side: the former had been around for 100 million years and the latter being comparatively new at 34 million years.


Mountain ash. Potentially the second biggest tree in the world after the Sequoia and certainly the biggest eucalyptus.


"World of age and wonder"


Myrtle Beech


Myrtle Beech


Path


Trees by side of path


A sign of Civilization


"Ancient world, another life"


Oddly the ISO 700-ish images were more pixellated than the ISO 1600 ones of the Fuji camera


Path again


Group listening to the driver-guide's lecture. From which I didn't copy down anything


I don't know why this was supposed to mean


Tall tree


Path again


Looking up a tree. If my note refers to this, this is a top feeder and the bottom of the tree is dead.


"Giants of the forest"


Bare tree


Path again


"Enjoying the rainforest"