Sun
Apr
19
Life on OZ
Travelist, percussioner, enthusiast
Paluma National Park
Daisie and I visited Paluma on Saturday. This Park is a World Heritage Site because of it’s Tropical Rainforest, which is rare and getting rarer. It’s beautiful! Crystal clear streams and steep wooded mountains with the shore only a few km away.
The trees develop Buttress Roots here in the rainforest. They’re for stability and trapping leaf litter around the roots among other things. Some are seriously giant.
The view from Witt’s Lookout, with the blue ocean in the distance and the Rainforest right behind you.
The things that look like vines growing around this tree are actually the roots of another tree, the Strangler Fig. They start as epiphytes up in the canopy of the victim-tree and drop down roots, eventually strangling the host. Sweet!
Good night Paluma
Sat
Apr
18
Birthday, Rego Revisited
So the car registration, insurance, and road worthy certificate is all finally worked out! It took countless trips all over town, but Daisie can finally buy ice cream at the store and not worry about it melting on the bus ride home.
She spent many hours of her birthday standing in lines at the Transportation Department and watching mechanics sign papers, which is very sad. But don’t worry, we made it out to a restaurant for a proper celebration, so between the new car and a great dinner she had a happy 24th.
Daisie with her new car!
