It’s raining again – our holiday seems to be linked in to
old songs! Not a lot of options in the rain so where else could you possibly go
but to a rainforest. Mount Tambourine was the destination today and the
Rainforest Skywalk. The roads are very steep and winding but the scenery is
fantastic. At least the forest we were driving through was, the cloud was all
encompassing so none of the views to the coast and beyond was able to be seen.
It was a total white out of clouds. But along the road there were tall and
straight flooded gums with the most beautiful bark of sleek olive green co
habituating with piccabeen palm trees that just pierced the sky heading for the
sunshine. Unfortunately, none of that today. The little village of Eagle Heights
was a stopping point where we wandered back and forth amongst the shops until
we found ourselves on the island of Corfu, or at least we think that was what
the café where we had lunch was trying to achieve. Everything, all white and
vivid blue, even the ceiling fans. Lunch was very nice though and we enjoyed
the break in the warmth of Corfu. Our hunger sated, we headed to the skywalk.
Driving through more rainforest for a couple of kms brought us to the skywalk park. It is an elevated metal walkway that takes you high above ground level into the canopy of the trees. Staghorns, elkhorns and wild orchids are everywhere on the tree branches and trunks. It was drizzling at this stage and the trees were positively glistening with the moisture on their foliage. The actual metal walkway probably only goes for a few hundred metres and then it takes you to the forest floor down along the creek where the piccabeen palms are incredibly tall and line both sides of the banks. This walk is about 1km but you can’t help but just stop often and gaze about at the gingers, strangler figs, rainforest trees and palms that abound and really take your time to take everything in. It started to rain when we had nearly finished the walk but it just seemed so appropriate in this place that we could have walked it all over again.
We had hard steady rain all the way back to the Bruce Highway and as by this time is was just after 4pm, of course we ran into peak hour traffic. It took us 45 minutes to go 24 kms! It was still a lovely day but a bit tiring so no cooking for me tonight. We had takeaway pizza and red wine for dinner. A good way to end the day.
Driving through more rainforest for a couple of kms brought us to the skywalk park. It is an elevated metal walkway that takes you high above ground level into the canopy of the trees. Staghorns, elkhorns and wild orchids are everywhere on the tree branches and trunks. It was drizzling at this stage and the trees were positively glistening with the moisture on their foliage. The actual metal walkway probably only goes for a few hundred metres and then it takes you to the forest floor down along the creek where the piccabeen palms are incredibly tall and line both sides of the banks. This walk is about 1km but you can’t help but just stop often and gaze about at the gingers, strangler figs, rainforest trees and palms that abound and really take your time to take everything in. It started to rain when we had nearly finished the walk but it just seemed so appropriate in this place that we could have walked it all over again.
We had hard steady rain all the way back to the Bruce Highway and as by this time is was just after 4pm, of course we ran into peak hour traffic. It took us 45 minutes to go 24 kms! It was still a lovely day but a bit tiring so no cooking for me tonight. We had takeaway pizza and red wine for dinner. A good way to end the day.
Snap of the day
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| Rainforest Skywalk. Mt Tambourine, NSW |
Oh wow, that photo, it could be the pic of the holiday! I even gasped when I saw it!
ReplyDeleteTwas all mother nature's doing. How could you go wrong with that filtered light and the misty rain and those magnificent trees? One just has to be in the right place at the right time (and having the right equipment helps)
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