Lamington Plateau

Ok. I've got 1 hr until my bus leaves and just enough money to pay for the internet. I'm gonna bullet point my week at Lamington, w/ a few extended descriptions, then post up as many pictures as I can. I've got much more to say on this past week in Noosa, but you'll have to wait until I get back on the 15th to hear it all because I don't have enough time.

3/4/10

-There is no point in stargazing in the Northern Hemisphere. Looking at the other side of the milky way sparkling like a million grains of sand blown across the cloudless night sky is enough to make oneself lost in space and time.

-PADEMELONS! OMG OMG OMG WITH BABIES!

-That was one of the VERY few times the sky was cloudless. It was fucking wet and cold al goddamn week. I left portland because it was 50 degrees and raining. I don't want any more of it now that I am here

-Bower birds= amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bower_bird

(Photos courtesy of Travis/Jack/myself)





Bower bird nest @ our campsite. This things are amazing. Rob said that there was a study done where a group of scientists broke up a bunch of blue glass bottles, and scratched the surface to identify them. Then then tracked them and found that each piece of glass could move up to 3 different nests per day. That means that the male bower birds (during mating season) are constantly stealing each other's "blue treasures"