Just a few holiday snaps to show off some of the countryside… Don’t know if youse have been up this way much, but I’m happy to show some pics. Stayed at places that I’m not sure if Oprah would go, but that’s her loss.

Day One saw us travel Townsville to Julatten, but via Mt Garnet. Our first brief stop was at a place called Cardwell. Cardwell is a beautiful town on the Bruce Hwy where the beach is just off the roadside, and just off the beach is the gorgeous Hinchinbrook Island.

Here is a shot taken looking North.

One of the goals for Day One was to see Blencoe Falls. A waterfall I have yet to see in North Qld and one that is off the tourist map. The road leading to the falls was once used by tree-loggers and once all the big trees had gone, they closed the road. Now the road is still on the maps but not many people use it today, and the Dept of Roads no longer maintain it. Pity really because it traversed some gorgeous rainforest, and had some spectacular look outs.

Here is a view halfway up looking south. In the shot you can see Mt Graham and Mt Farquharson in the background…

Interestingly enough, it does look like the road is maintained from the backway to Blencoe Falls, just not the Kirrima Range section, so after driving through dark and damp rainforest, with some pretty large monstrous cairns dedicated to the pioneers in the road building business, we came across a well formed and well graded dirt road, with timber bridges, like this one.

One time in PNG, we walked through the steaming Guinea grass for a few hours and then through some streams and a small clump of rainforest to get to a waterfall. When we finally got to the waterfall, we said “If this was in Qld, there would be a sealed road and a Kiosk here”. Well Blencoe falls was the same, a long walk through the grass and we came across a spectacular sight, what an impressive waterfall! It was only after the long walk back to the car, and driving off did we spot a road which takes you to where we had walked! D’oh!

Here’s Blencoe Falls.

and here is a closer view.

and they are fully grown Hoop Pines hanging precariously to the rock face. The trees and orchids and bird nest ferns hanging off the cliffs was amazing!

Here is a Fig Tree holding on for dear life.

and there were of course birds and butterflies…

well once we left the 4wdriving behind, we found ourselves back on the bitumen and at a place called Innot Hot Springs where the creek flows at 75C and can be quite an odd attraction….

Anyway there ain’t much else at Innot Hot Springs, so the locals have taken to carvings.

noice. I bet you appreciated the falls all the more for doing it the hard way. Where is the fig tree?

pain master said:

Here is a Fig Tree holding on for dear life.

here’s the Fig Tree??? Holding onto a cliff face…

pain master said:

and here is a closer view.

i have been as far north as the daintree – and i thought the mountains stopped there – obviously not.
good story – noice shots.
i am used to thinking the land away from the falls is a stinking hot, flies-in-your-eyes type of place. is this so? – or was it flooded up there when you visitied?

pepe said:

pain master said:

and here is a closer view.

i have been as far north as the daintree – and i thought the mountains stopped there – obviously not.
good story – noice shots.
i am used to thinking the land away from the falls is a stinking hot, flies-in-your-eyes type of place. is this so? – or was it flooded up there when you visitied?

pepe, to give you some perspective, this shot was Day One of my trip and I had not made it to the Cape by this stage. Blencoe Falls is over 100kms south of the Daintree, so a misnomer on my behalf.

my ‘puter is having problems loading the fig tree. will try again later. had no problems with the other pics though, strange.

bluegreen said:

my ‘puter is having problems loading the fig tree. will try again later. had no problems with the other pics though, strange.

how odd?

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

my ‘puter is having problems loading the fig tree. will try again later. had no problems with the other pics though, strange.

how odd?

yeah. it will only load the top centimetre of the picture and then says it is done!

Day Two was spent hanging out at Julatten and a roadtrip down to Mossman and the Mossman Gorge, part of the Daintree. We stayed at a farm in Julatten which had built a tree-house on the edge of their farm and in front of the rainforest. Was a beautiful spot with so many specie of birds easily seen from the balcony.

Here’s a frog.

and the farm had goats.

and the farm had a pretty place to eat breakfast…. nice view.

Mossman Gorge is pretty cool, they get 800-1000 visitors every day and a lot of them arrive in buses with stickers on their chest, and they are shown around by people with clipboards who are forever counting heads. No tour operator wants to leave anyone behind nowadays… well we made it to the Gorge just before the crowd and we kept a step ahead of them for most of the day. Phew.

Now Mossman has Sugarcane, just like many coastal parts of North Qld and along with Sugarcane comes Sugarcane Trains and these guys criss-cross the Bruce Hwy and make things fun for foreigners. Here is a Sugarcane Train at Mossman.

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Mossman Gorge is pretty cool, they get 800-1000 visitors every day and a lot of them arrive in buses with stickers on their chest, and they are shown around by people with clipboards who are forever counting heads. No tour operator wants to leave anyone behind nowadays… well we made it to the Gorge just before the crowd and we kept a step ahead of them for most of the day. Phew.

Now Mossman has Sugarcane, just like many coastal parts of North Qld and along with Sugarcane comes Sugarcane Trains and these guys criss-cross the Bruce Hwy and make things fun for foreigners. Here is a Sugarcane Train at Mossman.

Oooops.

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge is pretty cool, they get 800-1000 visitors every day and a lot of them arrive in buses with stickers on their chest, and they are shown around by people with clipboards who are forever counting heads. No tour operator wants to leave anyone behind nowadays… well we made it to the Gorge just before the crowd and we kept a step ahead of them for most of the day. Phew.

Now Mossman has Sugarcane, just like many coastal parts of North Qld and along with Sugarcane comes Sugarcane Trains and these guys criss-cross the Bruce Hwy and make things fun for foreigners. Here is a Sugarcane Train at Mossman.

Oooops.

Thanks PM, great armchair travel :)
The cane train is a blast from the past for me. I loved those little trains!

On Day Two, in Mossman Gorge, I found this teeny tiny Butterfly… he would not sit still and would just flippity and flappity its way along the path, looking but not stopping at anything in particular. My slow and careful movements with camera in focus meant that the tour groups with their stickers were starting to take an interest in the bloke with the camera and whether or not the butterfly was going to land and sit still. Well as the crowd got larger the butterfly got less and less interested in stopping yet he never veered from the path. If he had only scooted off into the rainforest I would have left him alone, but he teased and teased. The camera waited. I moved silently. The crowd waited. And then… he sat, on a twig, for a second… or two.

clickclickclickclick went the camera, the crowd oooohed and aaaaahed. The Butterfly legged it into the forest.

Mossman Gorge is pretty…. pretty popular with the tourists. Little effort is required to actually see anything. The coach with all the people and the stickers are dropped off only a swing bridge away from the Gorge and then the cameras are out and about and photos are taken. “Here’s me at Mossman Gorge!” they will say…

Kilometres away, in the same Daintree Forest is a tiny pool of water…. not many people walk this far and it is quaint. Gorgeous and serene, this place is photographed by those who care to leave the crowd for a brief moment in time.

The Trees will eat you. If you sit down long enough. I think the pre-conception is that Rainforests are fertile places, where life just happens. Sure 90% of the World’s Tree species are found between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn but I’m starting to think it is not because of soil verility, but purely a moisture thing. Sure the tropics are wet, but often Rainforests are attached to the sides of great granite mountains and the soil profile is pretty shallow. The humus from the leaf litter feeds the top inches of soil and the rest is washed out to see in great rivers of mud and debris. Rainforests is aquaponics on a grand scale. Why is it that the big trees of the forests need massive anchoring roots? Sure to hold on when the big blow comes, but this is also to seek out a scrap of feed, why are Aerial roots so popular?

Two examples of buttress roots.

and

here is a skink. for bon.

pain master said:

and here is a closer view.

Spectacular falls.

pain master said:

and they are fully grown Hoop Pines hanging precariously to the rock face. The trees and orchids and bird nest ferns hanging off the cliffs was amazing!

They look like bonsai in that pic.

pain master said:

Day Two was spent hanging out at Julatten and a roadtrip down to Mossman and the Mossman Gorge, part of the Daintree. We stayed at a farm in Julatten which had built a tree-house on the edge of their farm and in front of the rainforest. Was a beautiful spot with so many specie of birds easily seen from the balcony.

Here’s a frog.

What sort of frog it it please? I’m sure I’ve seen one of them before.

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge is pretty cool, they get 800-1000 visitors every day and a lot of them arrive in buses with stickers on their chest, and they are shown around by people with clipboards who are forever counting heads. No tour operator wants to leave anyone behind nowadays… well we made it to the Gorge just before the crowd and we kept a step ahead of them for most of the day. Phew.

Now Mossman has Sugarcane, just like many coastal parts of North Qld and along with Sugarcane comes Sugarcane Trains and these guys criss-cross the Bruce Hwy and make things fun for foreigners. Here is a Sugarcane Train at Mossman.

Oooops.

One day when we’re face to face I will tell a story about a cane train. One of life’s experiences when I lived in Innisfail.

beautiful as always

pain master said:

On Day Two, in Mossman Gorge, I found this teeny tiny Butterfly… he would not sit still and would just flippity and flappity its way along the path, looking but not stopping at anything in particular. My slow and careful movements with camera in focus meant that the tour groups with their stickers were starting to take an interest in the bloke with the camera and whether or not the butterfly was going to land and sit still. Well as the crowd got larger the butterfly got less and less interested in stopping yet he never veered from the path. If he had only scooted off into the rainforest I would have left him alone, but he teased and teased. The camera waited. I moved silently. The crowd waited. And then… he sat, on a twig, for a second… or two.

clickclickclickclick went the camera, the crowd oooohed and aaaaahed. The Butterfly legged it into the forest.

Like that story and the butterfly too.

loved the butterfly story :)

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge is pretty…. pretty popular with the tourists. Little effort is required to actually see anything. The coach with all the people and the stickers are dropped off only a swing bridge away from the Gorge and then the cameras are out and about and photos are taken. “Here’s me at Mossman Gorge!” they will say…

Kilometres away, in the same Daintree Forest is a tiny pool of water…. not many people walk this far and it is quaint. Gorgeous and serene, this place is photographed by those who care to leave the crowd for a brief moment in time.

Now that is my idea of a perfect bush creek setting. I much prefer that to any beach.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Here is a Sugarcane Train at Mossman.

One day when we’re face to face I will tell a story about a cane train. One of life’s experiences when I lived in Innisfail.

I have a sugarcane cutter story. There’s a train, too.

My Mum’s mother, Kathleen, was engaged to a chap in the 1920s. She couldn’t abide a man who drank – her father had been such a drinker that they poured him out of the pub into the sulky, slapped the horse’s rump and the horse took him home.

The fiance had been up North cutting sugarcane. Kathleen went to meet him at the train station …. his mates pushed him off the train, rolling drunk. Kathleen walked away and never spoke to him again.

It took her until she was 28 to marry a man who didn’t drink!

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Day Two was spent hanging out at Julatten and a roadtrip down to Mossman and the Mossman Gorge, part of the Daintree. We stayed at a farm in Julatten which had built a tree-house on the edge of their farm and in front of the rainforest. Was a beautiful spot with so many specie of birds easily seen from the balcony.

Here’s a frog.

What sort of frog it it please? I’m sure I’ve seen one of them before.

It be a Tawny Rocketfrog Pom, his range is PNG and Cape York down to Mount Molloy so unlikely to be found as far south as you. Yours maybe a Broad-palmed Rocketfrog which has a similar colouration….

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge is pretty cool, they get 800-1000 visitors every day and a lot of them arrive in buses with stickers on their chest, and they are shown around by people with clipboards who are forever counting heads. No tour operator wants to leave anyone behind nowadays… well we made it to the Gorge just before the crowd and we kept a step ahead of them for most of the day. Phew.

Now Mossman has Sugarcane, just like many coastal parts of North Qld and along with Sugarcane comes Sugarcane Trains and these guys criss-cross the Bruce Hwy and make things fun for foreigners. Here is a Sugarcane Train at Mossman.

Oooops.

One day when we’re face to face I will tell a story about a cane train. One of life’s experiences when I lived in Innisfail.

Cool, look forward to that story!

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge is pretty…. pretty popular with the tourists. Little effort is required to actually see anything. The coach with all the people and the stickers are dropped off only a swing bridge away from the Gorge and then the cameras are out and about and photos are taken. “Here’s me at Mossman Gorge!” they will say…

Kilometres away, in the same Daintree Forest is a tiny pool of water…. not many people walk this far and it is quaint. Gorgeous and serene, this place is photographed by those who care to leave the crowd for a brief moment in time.

Now that is my idea of a perfect bush creek setting. I much prefer that to any beach.

Just for reference, that sandy patch is around 4inches under water. It was soooo crystal clear that in the image it looks like a beach.

I am pretty sure I have been to Mossman Gorge as a kid on one of our family camping trips. I have memories of crystal clear icy cold water rushing between huge boulders. We discovered that it was such a wild ride to ride the flow of the river between the boulders that we didn’t mind that it was so cold. Does that match what you saw?

Yeehah said:

It took her until she was 28 to marry a man who didn’t drink!

Prolly took that long to find one…

Back in the same day in country SA, a long distant relative used to ride into town with the family on their family wagon… now the old man weren’t allowed to drink but he always had to pee at two certain spots on the journey. Same spots going into town as it were going out of town. Seems he often stashed a bottle or three in the hollows of a coupla trees.

bluegreen said:

I am pretty sure I have been to Mossman Gorge as a kid on one of our family camping trips. I have memories of crystal clear icy cold water rushing between huge boulders. We discovered that it was such a wild ride to ride the flow of the river between the boulders that we didn’t mind that it was so cold. Does that match what you saw?

Indeed, that is the spot where all the tourists are dropped off. Hundreds of people in the water, and on the viewing platforms. They need to start a crocodile breeding program.

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

I am pretty sure I have been to Mossman Gorge as a kid on one of our family camping trips. I have memories of crystal clear icy cold water rushing between huge boulders. We discovered that it was such a wild ride to ride the flow of the river between the boulders that we didn’t mind that it was so cold. Does that match what you saw?

Indeed, that is the spot where all the tourists are dropped off. Hundreds of people in the water, and on the viewing platforms. They need to start a crocodile breeding program.

weren’t no tourists when we were there – we had to walk to get there! I guess things have changed though.

bluegreen said:

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

I am pretty sure I have been to Mossman Gorge as a kid on one of our family camping trips. I have memories of crystal clear icy cold water rushing between huge boulders. We discovered that it was such a wild ride to ride the flow of the river between the boulders that we didn’t mind that it was so cold. Does that match what you saw?

Indeed, that is the spot where all the tourists are dropped off. Hundreds of people in the water, and on the viewing platforms. They need to start a crocodile breeding program.

weren’t no tourists when we were there – we had to walk to get there! I guess things have changed though.

well those days are gone…

pain master said:

On Day Two, in Mossman Gorge, I found this teeny tiny Butterfly… he would not sit still and would just flippity and flappity its way along the path, looking but not stopping at anything in particular. My slow and careful movements with camera in focus meant that the tour groups with their stickers were starting to take an interest in the bloke with the camera and whether or not the butterfly was going to land and sit still. Well as the crowd got larger the butterfly got less and less interested in stopping yet he never veered from the path. If he had only scooted off into the rainforest I would have left him alone, but he teased and teased. The camera waited. I moved silently. The crowd waited. And then… he sat, on a twig, for a second… or two.

clickclickclickclick went the camera, the crowd oooohed and aaaaahed. The Butterfly legged it into the forest.

chuckle – you’re a born performer p..master LOL.
ordinary shot (for you) but the story is great.

pain master said:

here is a skink. for bon.

Nice one :)

Mossman Gorge was wet and warm, which means good news if you’re a fungi.

Here are some that I saw.

that last one and this one, are pretty standard fare up here in the tropics, I think I have posted quite a few of them before. But there are stranger things to come…

these little white guys were climbing the trees to get where? I dunno.

Keep ‘em coming…

and I like these tiny red-cap ones…

and this was amazing…. it was like little snowflakes, each one an individual, soooo tiny.

now it gets kinda weird…. these tall little fellows were in clumps or as like this one, individuals.

and this was odd, all purple and stuck on a trunk…

and mould.

and more mould.

and just when I thought I had seen it all. A wasp had laid its eggs on a leaf. Some leafs had one egg, some had plenty.

so that was the highlights of Day Two. Day Three (to come) was travelling into the heart of the Cape up to Musgrave.

pain master said:

so that was the highlights of Day Two. Day Three (to come) was travelling into the heart of the Cape up to Musgrave.

Beautiful photos PM. You certainly have a good eye for interesting subjects

thanks Anne :)

lovely :)

pain master said:

and I like these tiny red-cap ones…

They are pretty. Sure to be some fairies and elves living under them.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

and I like these tiny red-cap ones…

They are pretty. Sure to be some fairies and elves living under them.

Missed this one, a great pic as we expect from you lol PM

Day three, we left Julatten and the rain and headed for the Cape. We hoped that the rain would not follow us because the rivers in the Cape can come up pretty quick and the road can get very slippy. Lucky for us the rain departed as we passed Mount Carbine, and headed up towards Lakeland, and Cooktown.

Bob’s Lookout.

well we drove up to Laura, stopped at the Post Office for some diesel (as you do) and continued on to Musgrave. We checked out some fantastic aboriginal cave paintings at Laura and the old Telegraph Station at Musgrave. Turned right and headed for Lakefield National Park.

Then the clods came. 120mms in these ones we copped in the next two hours.

but we made it to our destination… it was this far from everywhere.

pain master said:

but we made it to our destination… it was this far from everywhere.

Great sign post. I wonder who measured the distances.

pain master said:

but we made it to our destination… it was this far from everywhere.

…and the one pointing down says “Hell’s Gate”, right? (outside Muttaburra)

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge was wet and warm, which means good news if you’re a fungi.

Here are some that I saw.

superb photography as always.
i have just bought a

Canon power shot Sx30 IS

and will picked your brains on manual settings if i might.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

but we made it to our destination… it was this far from everywhere.

Great sign post. I wonder who measured the distances.

google maps most probably.

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

but we made it to our destination… it was this far from everywhere.

…and the one pointing down says “Hell’s Gate”, right? (outside Muttaburra)

I like Muttaburra.

pepe said:

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge was wet and warm, which means good news if you’re a fungi.

Here are some that I saw.

superb photography as always.
i have just bought a

Canon power shot Sx30 IS

and will picked your brains on manual settings if i might.

always happy to offer advice pepe… I may have to go and google the Sx30 IS to see what youse got.

always happy to offer advice pepe… I may have to go and google the Sx30 IS to see what youse got.

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merci master

Day Four and the view we awoke to was of blue skies and no rain…. phew, we thought we may had arrived in time for the wet, but no, we scored good weather. Time for exploring but before exploring, we had croissants, bubble ‘n’ squeak, cereal, fruit and this view…

pain master said:

Day Four and the view we awoke to was of blue skies and no rain…. phew, we thought we may had arrived in time for the wet, but no, we scored good weather. Time for exploring but before exploring, we had croissants, bubble ‘n’ squeak, cereal, fruit and this view…

this lagoon was home to many many waterbirds including the squarking, noisy Magpie Geese, the majestic and proud Jabiru and the frolicking Brolga. Plus a million other little birds, ducks, egrets, kingfishers, herons and Papuan Frogmouths. These guys had been absent for a few months and the owners of the lagoon was concerned that they had left.

So at 4am when I heard the low frequency truck-reversing woop-woop-woop-woop outside my window, I knew we would find em. So at sparrow-fart I was up and looking and sure enough, I got the pleasure of not just seeing a pair of Papuan Frogmouths in a tree, but also flying around and hunting for their last meal of the night.

Marian Plains, Lakefield National Park…

and here is one of many lagoons in the area…

and a Frill-necked Lizard.

and a Lace Monitor.

and an Agile Wallaby, a male, and quite a well-fed one at that…

pain master said:

and an Agile Wallaby, a male, and quite a well-fed one at that…

i think…. or at least I was told…

pain master said:

and an Agile Wallaby, a male, and quite a well-fed one at that…

He’s got the neck of a rugby league player.

Colouring is quite different from our local wallabies, they tend to be much darker in our area, very dark grey.

well after a day or so playing around in the mud, we headed back south and went to a bird-watching joint back at Julatten.

we saw a frog.

and a Lizard, Boyd’s Water Dragon actually…

and a pretty green butterfly

and a whole bunch of different fungi

and more fungi

some more fungi

and even more fungi

and lastly, this little delicate fungi

Thanks PM enjoyed the tour :)

pain master said:

Interestingly enough, it does look like the road is maintained from the backway to Blencoe Falls, just not the Kirrima Range section, so after driving through dark and damp rainforest, with some pretty large monstrous cairns dedicated to the pioneers in the road building business, we came across a well formed and well graded dirt road, with timber bridges, like this one.

Wow I never knew there are bridges like this…..how cool. Bet its solid as too.

pain master said:

bluegreen said:

my ‘puter is having problems loading the fig tree. will try again later. had no problems with the other pics though, strange.

how odd?

did you fig-ger it out/?? TIC hehehhe

pain master said:

Mossman Gorge is pretty…. pretty popular with the tourists. Little effort is required to actually see anything. The coach with all the people and the stickers are dropped off only a swing bridge away from the Gorge and then the cameras are out and about and photos are taken. “Here’s me at Mossman Gorge!” they will say…

Kilometres away, in the same Daintree Forest is a tiny pool of water…. not many people walk this far and it is quaint. Gorgeous and serene, this place is photographed by those who care to leave the crowd for a brief moment in time.

looks like something from an old Vincent Price movie……eerie…….but stunning at the same time.

pain master said:

The Trees will eat you. If you sit down long enough. I think the pre-conception is that Rainforests are fertile places, where life just happens. Sure 90% of the World’s Tree species are found between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn but I’m starting to think it is not because of soil verility, but purely a moisture thing. Sure the tropics are wet, but often Rainforests are attached to the sides of great granite mountains and the soil profile is pretty shallow. The humus from the leaf litter feeds the top inches of soil and the rest is washed out to see in great rivers of mud and debris. Rainforests is aquaponics on a grand scale. Why is it that the big trees of the forests need massive anchoring roots? Sure to hold on when the big blow comes, but this is also to seek out a scrap of feed, why are Aerial roots so popular?

Two examples of buttress roots.

Goodness……..never seen this tree before……

pain master said:

these little white guys were climbing the trees to get where? I dunno.

Oh how cute…like light shades going up the trunk.

pain master said:

now it gets kinda weird…. these tall little fellows were in clumps or as like this one, individuals.

I ain’t saying anything about this one……hehehheee

As always PM a stunning array of photos of our beautiful country. You never let me down, once the photos are announced that they are about to be shown.

pain master said:

and a Lizard, Boyd’s Water Dragon actually…

what’s that around it’s neck? has it been tagged or is that natural?

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Interestingly enough, it does look like the road is maintained from the backway to Blencoe Falls, just not the Kirrima Range section, so after driving through dark and damp rainforest, with some pretty large monstrous cairns dedicated to the pioneers in the road building business, we came across a well formed and well graded dirt road, with timber bridges, like this one.

Wow I never knew there are bridges like this…..how cool. Bet its solid as too.

6-8inches thick and solid timber… bit hairy on the pushbike, especially if ya wheel go down a crack!

Lucky1 said:

As always PM a stunning array of photos of our beautiful country. You never let me down, once the photos are announced that they are about to be shown.

Thanks Lucky, still a few more of Cape York to go.

pepe said:

pain master said:

and a Lizard, Boyd’s Water Dragon actually…

what’s that around it’s neck? has it been tagged or is that natural?

spines around his neck… I’ll get a closer image for ya…

the last of the Cape York series, this time we travel to the Wongabel State Forest in the Atherton Tablelands… it was my first visit to this wonderful jungle and the pathway is fantastic, well laid out and suitable to all ages, this ain’t bushwalking, this is a leisurely walk through a very old rainforest.

I really the colours of this tree. The common name is Cheeswood…

the last of the Cape York series, this time we travel to the Wongabel State Forest in the Atherton Tablelands… it was my first visit to this wonderful jungle and the pathway is fantastic, well laid out and suitable to all ages, this ain’t bushwalking, this is a leisurely walk through a very old rainforest.

I really the colours of this tree. The common name is Cheeswood…

sorry for the double post… I must have really like that tree!!!

in the dark of the rainforest, a little golden toadstool shines out for all…

and lucky’s little friends all march to attention…

and this little guy prefers to remain in the dark shadows, away from the bright lights…

and old favourite now, these guys are spotted on a regular basis in the North Qld tropics…

some fungi, like the little golden yellow one, like to hang out alone. These chaps love nothing more than the company of others.

these guys are tough and woody, they survive a fair time in the dry, waiting for the moisture to return.

hahahahah, stoopid new computer….

I’ll try that again eh?

these guys like the company of others.

pain master said:

these guys like the company of others.

Cool

and these are the tough woody ones.

and these are very soft with a leathery feel… but not like a cow, more like a couch.

a soft couch…

and that concludes the tour of Cape York.

but don’t worry, I have taken a whole bunch of shots since then… I am sure I will come up with something…

Another excellent round of fungi photos, thanks PM :)

pain master said:

these guys like the company of others.

fantastic – they look like a village in vietnam – in miniature. they also look as tho’ they would like it wet..