We’ve been travelling through and exploring Gunaikurnai land but I’ll tell you about that shortly. Later that same day we visited Tarra-Bulga National Park. Magnificent! Rugged up against the misty, chilly air, we walked through ferny gullies, along the lyrebird ridge trail, across Corrigans suspension bridge which stretches through the rainforest canopy. Through stands of Mountain Ash, the tallest flowering trees in the world, we trailed along paths through dogwood, sassafras, stink wood and ferns of many descriptions.
This is a mother shield fern. They reproduce from bulbil (baby fern) which grow on the tip of a frond. As the frond ages, the tip bends to the ground and the bulbil takes root and grows into a new fern. How gentle!
You can be looking up at the stars - or the magnificent crown of a tree fern.
We saw many vertical gardens.
Raindrops did indeed keep falling on my head.
Young fern or bracken fronds are good bush tucker.
It’s a lovely tranquil place to be, particularly when it is silent - except for the piping bird calls from lyrebirds or the real owners of those songs.
This is a little blurry but there’s a tail of a Superb Lyrebird in there - with bird attached!.
I managed to video one cheeky lyrebird out foraging in the open. We were flabbergasted as neither of us had seen one in the open before. I’ve also posted a video on YouTube of that same bird going through his unique choral routine (search for Heather Wheat - and pick me! I've posted quite a few videos). Not long after he stopped singing another started up. What an awesome day! Earlier that morning we had listened to another lyrebird singing his heart out as we walked in Fosters Gully. A tally of three at least for that day.
Corrigans suspension bridge
From the bridge you look out over a forest of lush tree ferns
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