We liked it here so much we booked another day. On the second day we hiked the Box Forest Track, a loop trail that goes down through a forest with massive old box shrub trees past numerous waterfalls and down to Canungra Creek, then back up past more waterfalls.
There were a bunch of these red flowering trees dotting the hillsides.
We were impressed with the number of quite elderly people doing the hike (even more elderly than us!). But the trail was actually very gradual up the steep slope, switching back again and again at a very civilized incline.
We were told there was a regent bowerbird's bower at the beginning of the trail, but we failed to find it.
On our way back we heard a series of raucous birdcalls, but we failed to locate the source. Fortunately a guide passed us telling his clients this was the lyrebird mimicking other bird's songs. We had been looking up into the canopy instead of down on the ground where the lyrebird hangs out.
We returned to the spot where Leo had seen the lyrebird for the last time and still didn't find it, but we did see this guy:
A pademelon, a tiny kangaroo that stands less than 2 feet high.
Lots of birds sighted today, but only two new ones, including this russet-tailed thrush:
So obviously, it's time to move on as the sun sets on Lamington National Park.
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