Our Weekend at the Bunya Mountains

In November, Graham and I spend a wonderful weekend in the Bunya Mountains with some very good friends of ours from church. We stayed in a very spacious home with lovely views and lots of feathered and furred visitors.

We were so fortunate weather wise the entire weekend as the week prior had seen storms and heavy rainfall hit at home but God was good and blessed us with perfect weather.

Graham and I arrived Friday afternoon to fine Mavis and Peter already settled in. Then Lorelle and Noel arrived later on Saturday morning. We went for a walk before lunch .... I love this area. The forests range from rainforest to open eucalypt.

We think these are surveyors markings on this tree.
A beautiful example of a crows nest fern on one of the trees.
The marks in this tree would have been made years ago by the Aboriginal people for foot and hand holds when climbing the Bunya Pines to harvest the large cones.
Mavis and I during our Saturday walk ..... in our hiking gear .......
Saturday afternoon we were summonsed by noise King Parrots. These birds have the most spectacular plumage. They are such cheeky birds and were even climbing up the screen on the doors to catch our attention.
The parrots are so friendly that they will eat out of your hand.

Sunday morning and as the mist cleared we could see all the wallabies in the yard. There were no many ... some with Joeys and one pair were courting. It was so lovely to watch.

You can see how full her pouch is and if you look carefully can just make out part of the joey's face.
Courting wallabies.

These are some of the wildflowers which we saw on Sunday morning's bush walk. After heading through rainforest we came out in more open eucalypt forest.

The view from the clearing after we walked out of the rainforest.

These are some of the different ferns, fungi and lichen which we saw growing on the forest floor and on trees. There were also lots of native orchids but unfortunately none were flowering.


In our hiking gear. Unfortunately I didn't have my tripod with me so couldn't be in this photo.

One of the falls and cascades we came across.

This little grotto was a lovely, cool area for a break.

Some unusual trees and climbers. This one has raised prickles all the way up the trunk.

Some of the vines get so twisted around the trees.

Due to the high rainforest and damp misty mornings lichen grows on everything. Even the houses as the following photos show.