Apr 30, 2007

More Rainforest Fun

At the Feet of the Rainforest A bit of a panic this morning; we were due at Music for 9.45am and didn't wake up until 9.15am. Nicole has the week off, and Eloise the Alarm Clock seems to be taking this into account.

So Nicole was bundled off to music with urchin, and I walked the dogs down at the brook so we could do something in the afternoon.

I got back home to find that Nicole has only bought the racously expensive companion CD to the music course. Curse her. Now I have to put up with another variant of "Row Your Boat" on the stereo, unless somehow something were to happen to it....

In the afternoon we went up to Mount Mee, a place which was new to all of us at the North end of the D'Aguilar Mountains.

There was a very nice picnic area there with an enormous Gantry left from timber logging days. The kookaburras were a bit keen though. They sat in trees looking down on us, our sandwiches and our crisps, hungrily, but patient... so patient....

Then we went on a little circuit walk through the rainforest, which, my birthday book reliably informs me, is a drier kind of rainforest than that wot we went to yesterday. And indeed the gum trees were more prevalent, letting more light through to the piccabeen palms below. See, I almost sound like I know wot I is typin about.

We spent a couple of hours doing that, and very nice it was too, before driving down to a different car park and going to a lookout over Bulls Falls and the Neerum Creek valley, which was only a little walk, thankfully, because needless to say there was precious little falling going on. We did see some pademelons on the way down. They are little kangaroos, as no doubt you already know.

We got back for about six o'clock, picking up some clothes for Eloise from a workmate of Nicole's who doesn't need them any more. For her daughter that is.

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