Sun Apr 15 21:13:08 2007
Dandenong Ranges National Park
Lyrebird Country
Today we headed to Dandenong Ranges National Park. This is a huge protected native forest. Bikes not allowed as this is Lyrebird habitat. We didn't see any Lyrebirds but enjoyed the lush green forest, a result of some rain that has fallen recently.
We'd been looking forward to seeing the Sherbrooke Falls. These are they. Woefully underimpressed, us.
Ferns like this are a common sight in the forest.
The trees are enormous, and sufficiently high and dense to prevent The Geek getting a GPS fix on our location. Fortunately we didn't get lost. This time we'd taken a map, too, although it proved unnecessary.
This parrot was hiding in the ferns. This is what a long lens is for. Eventually I even got it to focus on the parrot.
On returning to the picnic area we saw dozens of parrots on the ground, being fed (against the pleading signs everywhere) by two girls. Eventually somebody walked straight through the middle of the birds, causing all of them to take flight at once.
