Tree ferns in the Tarra Bulga National Park, South Gippsland, Victoria #4

by Southern Lightscapes-Australia

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Tree ferns in the Tarra Bulga National Park, South Gippsland, Victoria #4

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Southern Lightscapes-Australia

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Tarra-Bulga National Park in South Gippsland is a well known cool temperate rainforest filled with giant trees, beautiful fern gullies and ancient myrtle beeches. The national park is located in the south Gippsland region of eastern Victoria, Australia. The park is located 33 kilometres south of Traralgon on the Traralgon-Balook Road.
The 1,522-hectare rainforest park like a magical mythical forest, the area is filled with all manner of ancient ferns, rainforest trees and ancient mountain ash giants that soar well over 200 feet high. The moist air is so pure it's overwhelming, it is just so peaceful, serene and beautiful.The two most common tree ferns are the Cyathea australis or Rough tree-fern and the Dicksonia antarctica which is the Soft tree-fern and there are areas that are just filled to the brim with these wonderful plants.
The park covers some of the best examples of original cool temperate rainforests of the original Strzelecki Ranges, before the white settlement of the late nineteenth century. The park was created in 1904, one of the earliest reserves of cool temperate rainforest in the world and one of only four in the Australian state of Victoria.
Walking tracks cover both section of this beautiful national park, and they include good tracks to the impressive Corrigan’s Suspension Bridge, which stretches through the rainforest canopy, affording spectacular views of the lush fern gully on the forest floor below.
The temperate rainforest is a haven for plants and wildlife. A wide variety of birds including the pilot-bird, yellow tailed black cockatoo, the eastern whip-bird, and the large black and white currawongs. Visits to this special place in the evenings is when the forest comes to life for possums, owls and bats emerge to feed. It's quite common to see a lyrebird scratching the forest floor looking for food or to catch a glimpse of some of the other inhabitants like the wombats, swamp wallabies, gliders and platypuses.

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January 7th, 2024

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