O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - July 2021

 Walked from O'Reilly's via The Centenial Track to Moran's Falls and passed the glow worm gully (where they were hiding) on to The Wishing Tree track and then up passed Mick's Tower and back to O'Reilly's.  6.9 km and 2hrs 15 mins.  We were very lucky with the weather today as it threatened to rain but didn't do so until we got back after lunch. 

Tree entirely taken over a strangler fig.

Morans Falls.

View down the valley from Morans Falls. 

The Wishing Tree - with Ronnie inside. 

The Wishing Tree from the other side. 

                                                 Bridge over the creek. 

O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat - July 2021

Just realised our last solo trip was to O'Reilly's in 2019.  Stopping off on the way to Anne's place. 

On the way to O'Reilly's is Kamarun Lookout where you feel like you are on the top of the world. 

                               Looking from the other direction. 

Morning view from our room.  A very different atmosphere from the last time we were here when it was the year of the fires and the Binna Burra lodge burnt down and it was incredibly dry, sunny and hot in November.  This year everything is wet again, as you'd expect the rainforest to be - leaves dripping with water and mist wafting through the trees. 

Black Booyong the largest buttressed rainforest tree in Eastern Australia can grow 20 - 50 m tall. 

The mist washes out the colours looking up to the canopy where you can see huge birds nest ferns.