My favourite gum tree (Corymbia ficifolia) seems to like the climate in Victoria and is a very popular street tree in Melbourne.
The Great Ocean Road around Wye River.
One of many Koalas of Cape Otway.
The Great Otway National Park is an amazing place! Most tourists just drive along the Great Ocean Road and never go inland. One could easily spend a month exploring the numerous bush walks, bike tracks, 4WD tracks, waterfalls and different ecosystems.
Our camp in Beauchamp Falls, which was our base for 5 days.
Forrest (haha - the early settlers didn't have spell-checkers!), a tiny settlement in the Otways has an amazing network of mountain bike trails. We tried our skills on no. 1, 2, 3 and 4 (the black diamond ones are too technical for me).
Kirsten on the mountain bike track to Lake Elizabeth.....
.... and me at the lake. Lake Elizabeth was naturally formed by a landslide in 1952, hence the dead trees in the middle. The settlers only discovered it when they tried to find out why the creek stopped running.
Great Otway National Park contains pockets of Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans), which is the world's tallest flowering plant. It can reach heights of up to 150 metres and can live for up to 500 years!
The spiral tower at "The Otway Fly Treetop Walk" is 47m high. It is hard to believe that some of these trees could be three times that height if they hadn't been logged!
Fern forest from above.....
.... and the ancient looking Myrtle Beech trees (Nothofagus cunninghamii). It is such an awe-inspiring environment!!
A bush toilet for people who like to have a chat while on the throne.
The Old Beechy used to be a train connecting Beech Forest with Colac and is now a rail-trail for bicycles.
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