The Rainforest

After lunch we embarked on our rainforest walk. The entrance was through a small exhibition space, and when we walked out the back the temperature had already dropped considerable and the soundscape had changed markedly. Now we could hear whip birds and the sounds of strange animals, reminiscent of cats or babies. It was suddenly quite dark, and the forest beneath the canopy was dense.

Occasionally we saw some wildlife - I felt something land on my foot and Sarah said that she say a lizard ran across the path and across it. Pademelons (little wallaby-like things) were foraging around in the thick undergrowth.

We ambled along very gently until the parasite incident I alluded to in last night's post which Nicole can explain as she did all the panicking.

Our pace picked up considerably after that....