On Friday night we found this Perons Tree Frog.
Sat morning we could see the falls in the morning light ...
when Jo and the Ron arrived we started the trek to the base of the falls while Oneputt secured base camp.
not sure what Ron was trying to capture here ...
I reckon it was a conspiracy that they got me to take the lead just before i walked into this little fella...
It didn't seem to want to move off the track ...
When i grabbed its tail it spun around and was clearly not impressed but slowly sauntered off the track...
After a fair bit of scrambling over large boulders to get there i had to climb up to the left to try and get the whole falls in the pic...
to give you an idea of the scale, the arrow points to Ron in the pic...
and another pic taken from down the valley a bit ...
We then endured the extremely high humidity and high temps on the climb back up out of the lush green valley...
I took the lead again for a short time and STOOD on this dark brown slender looking snake ... didn't get a real good look at it but could have been a Dwarf Crowned snake or Marsh snake? ... i still reckon it was a conspiracy !!
After jauntily ... err ... umm ... crawling the last few agonizing metres to the top we then started to get rid of the excess weight we had carried up from the valley floor ...
This one had at least 10KG of my blood in it !!
Lace Monitor didn't seem worried by us at all...
Leaving Minyon Falls we drove to Rummery Park then Rocky Creek dam and walked up to Protesters Falls for a look around the area...
as the day was wearing on we had to find a campspot and headed up Wallaces road ... on and on we climbed, up into the mist shrouded rainforest to an old log dump...
not sure what this is ... perhaps a fuel drum something or other ...
On Sunday morning we needed our fix and headed off to Nimbin ...
for a coffee.
We were not sure whether to use QLD time or NSW time ... but needless to say it didn't matter anyway...
its certainly a strange place...
We headed up to Main Range National Park and stopped fot lunch near some Arctic Beech Trees ...
we stopped to have a look at an old railway bridge and were lucky enough to see a train cross it...
Just after that Jo and the Ron departed for home while John and i started looking for somewhere to camp.
we headed up to Mount May but it was packed so we took a couple of pics of the falls and headed off again...
we ended up finding a camp beside a small dam up near O'Reillys and found this Great Barred Frog changeling,it was about 50 to 60 mm long and is the biggest tadpole i've ever seen ...
this noisy little Bibrons Toadlet was calling out from beside my swag so we grabbed a few pics of it then put it back ...
its only about 18mm long but makes a big racket ...
It got me back for the photo session by keeping up the noise all bloody night
On Monday Morning we drove up to O'Reillys but the rain and mist set in so i just grabbed a pic of a Potaroo and we headed for home...
great weekend, thanks Guys
