4K Maits Rest Rainforest Walk Great Ocean Road AUSTRALIA Part 5 オーストラリア
A spectacular rainforest boardwalk for everybody. Forming part of the Otway Ranges National Park, Maits Rest sits about 15 minutes from Apollo Bay along the Great Ocean Road. A selection of boardwalks and gravel paths that take you around a 45-minute walking route. As you go, you can soak up the lush valley floor, the ancient trees that soar skywards, and the collection of tree ferns and moss that cover the forest floor like something out of a fairytale.
A wooden boardwalk has been built over the tree-fern gullies and moss covered roots, providing a unique view of the forest.
The areas surrounding the Great Ocean Road are thick with lush rainforest and plenty of hiking trails to explore. As you go, you can look out for native wildlife, ancient plant life, and spectacular scenery while learning more about the creatures and their habitats.
You’ll notice there are lots of beech trees here, many of which are hundreds of years old and form an important part of the Otway National Park. Keep your eyes peeled for birds, too, as there are around 43 different species that aren’t found anywhere else in the world.
The Maits Rest walk is best-known for its stunning natural beauty and its unique view of the forest.
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Highway 1: Australia's greatest road trip: Gondwana rainforests of NSW
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Centuries old Antarctic beech trees (Nothofagus moorei) cling to the long-extinct Tweed Volcano's outer rim in the Border Ranges NP, in far northern NSW. The hoary bark of these Gondwanan survivors is softened by dark-green coats of lichens and bryophytes.
The Antarctic beech forests protected in the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area support one of the nation's greatest concentrations of marsupial, bird, frog and snake species.
Descending deep into Dorrigo's subtropical rainforest along eroded basalt terraces, we spot strangler figs and walkingstick palms and our eyes follow the mossy, buttressed trunks of booyong trees up into a canopy draped with vines and studded with epiphytes. Birdsong rings out from these treetop gardens and waterfalls trickle under the track and disappear beneath bracken ferns that carpet the gully below.
Our long descent ends at a suspension bridge that spans the void beneath Crystal Shower Falls, swinging and swaying about 20 metres above the river gully and leading walkers into a fern-covered cavern behind the waterfall to gaze back out through its broad shimmering veil.
One of 50 sites between Newcastle and Brisbane that form the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area (WHA), Dorrigo National Park appeals for its accessibility, attracting around 150,000 visitors every year. But it's for a riverside camp in Nymboi-Binderay National Park that we've journeyed inland to where the Nymboida River's rampaging rapids thrill rafters with a wild whitewater ride.
West of Dorrigo, Moonpar Forest Drive cuts a narrow path north through stands of giant tallowwood trees to Platypus Flat, a serene stretch of riverbank where deep pools momentarily curb the 165km-long Nymboida River, known by its Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal name. We select a site between quiet campers stirring pots and stoking fires and after Maya's steaming alfresco bath, spend the hours before sunset on the water's edge watching platypus and river turtles bubble to the surface.
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Ep. 19 Apostles and Waterfalls on the Great Ocean Road - Everywhere Together
Everyone has heard of the Great Ocean Road, its beautiful scenery and the top attractions: the Twelve Apostles, the London Bridge and the Grotto. But do you know what else is in the area? We visit the Otway and Beech Forests and 8 of their beautiful waterfalls. The Troopy recovers an All-Wheel-Drive from the mud, and we get to know Guy, our second hitchhiker and his favourite spot in Australia.
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An interesting discovery at the Auckland Botanic Gardens
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Auckland Botanic Gardens plant curators have unearthed what are thought to be prehistoric dinosaur eggs in the Gondwana Forest of the expansive park in Manurewa.
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213 // Probably the highlight of the trip so far. Hopetoun falls and the redwood forest in Otway National Park. Can't wait to show you the bigger cinematic edit of all these places!
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