Monday 25 November 2013

Another walk in the Lamington nation park

Boder track
Border track near Binna Burra, Lamington national park. Fuji X-E1 & XF18-55mm

Another walk at the Lamington national park. I went to Binna Burra last Sunday, and did the Coomera circuit. It was misty, and the place got some rains in previous days. It was wet and muddy, but leaches appeared only after the Coomera falls. The famous Blue Lamington crayfish  walked in grass along the creeks. Notable change happen on the track: the park rangers cleared a new lookout at the edge of the Coomera gorge, with nice view towards Yarrabilgong falls.

Surprisingly, I got bitten by a tick, a very rare event for this track. Another unexpected and unpleasant finding: a small patch of Creeping Gloxinia, Lophospermum erubescens, growing somewhere in the middle of the rainforest. I saw the same species growing upstream of Elabana falls at Green Mountains / O'Reilly's section, but it seems Creeping Gloxinia is common across the park.


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