I had the opportunity to spend an hour at Tallebudgera Creek in the southern part of Queensland’s Gold Coast. More famous for high rise buildings, wide golden beaches and the tourist mayhem of Surfers Paradise, the few kilometres marks a significant difference in pace and mood.

Tallebudgera Creek itself has it origins in the hills of the hinterland and also has a small canal estate before its final wide expanse is squeezed under the Gold Coast Highway for its final sigh into the sea.

My visit was short, limited both by time and approaching inclement weather, which provided the opportunity to capture a different mood to the its usual sunny disposition.

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One hundred kilometres south-west of Brisbane, Queensalnd, Australia, the Main Range National Park is on the western part of the famous Scenic Rim—a spectacular arc of mountains that is largely made up of the eroded edge of a giant ancient volcano that first erupted over 24 million years ago

The area is cloaked by the even more ancient Gondwana rainforest. Walking tracks take us past living fossils, plants that hold clear links to those plants that existed 100 million years ago on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.

Equaling the plant diversity is the diversity of birds, who’s calls echo through the forest.

Here is just a quick snapshot.

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