We packed our stuff up and headed back to the ferry for a long day of travel.
The trails are extremely well constructed and maintained in this park. Most of
them are boardwalk style. They also have lovely creek crossings and some fancy
suspension bridges. One place they have a beautiful tree trunk where one of the
main tree branches completed the crossing. We saw another padamellon up close,
and I saw what I think was a wallaby. There were some great birds on the way
back too. The final field was gorgeous-clumps of button grass and views of all
the mountains we saw (just about) during the trip. We caught the ferry back with
more gorgeous views from Lake St. Clair. You could also see the edge of the
storm moving out from the area-the one that had followed us most of the time we
were there. We had a nice dinner at the visitors' center and I got several
information sheets on various animals in Tazzie-including the echinoderms. We were picked up late by Tazzie Link but we had a crazy driver who drove in
the middle of the road at up to 110 in 70 kph zones. I fell asleep for most of
it. There were some good marsupial sightings in the bus lights; Jason saw a
couple of bandicoots. At last we returned to the hostel where we showered and
slept in anticipation for our next day. |