WE'RE BACK CONTINUED

These photos were taken at Yarra Valley and in the Yarra Bulga National Park. We walked along rainforest trails to the waterfall at Yarra Valley and also another walk through the Yarra Bulga National Park down over the suspension bridge ... not good
if you don't like heights but certainly very beautiful looking down
into the canopies of the rainforest. When we walked over the bridge, this linked us with another trail through "Fern Gully'. It was really lush and lots of big old established trees with huge gnarled tree roots covered in moss, lots of ferns and ground cover, it got really cool down in this bottom section and when we exhaled it was wafts of fog ... it was almost as though little pixies or fairies could easily live there!! As we got back onto the trail to bring us
out of the National Park we spotted a Lyrebird ... Blake thought
this was just so cool; but, wouldn't you know it, whilst I was trying to zoom & focus on the darn thing ... the camera batteries went flat!!*@?! Where were the spares?? ... in the car (in the carpark) of course! Never mind ... this was a good learning curve, I was very "on the ball" with batteries, spare memory cards etc thereafter.
We were staying at a little town called Yarram whilst we did the National Park thing; and the locals told us about a lovely little
place a few kilometres the other way on the coast ... Port Albert.
This was a cute little place situated on the water with not a lot there but lived up to its' name being a large port and certainly a lovely place to sit and enjoy our fish and chips we brought for tea from the co-op.
We left Yarram and travelled down to Wilsons Promentory National Park. Wilsons Promentory is the southern most part of Australia! To go right to the bottom tip you actually have to do an overnight hike ... I'm sure it is really lovely but to the end of the roal would do us. The road took us as far as Tidal River which is a
really big camping/recreation area. If we lived closer, what a
fabulous weekend getaway with great camping areas through to cabins and group lodge facilities!
We went for a walk along a few of the easier trails ... it was really lovely walking along the boardwalks around the waters, the footbridge area was pretty (where these pics were taken) and lots of the big rock formations were very picturesque! We also seen lots of lovely wildlife including echidnas waddling along the side of the road out on the highway and emus on the way down to Tidal River ... this all contributes to a wonderful experience.
Well this will do for tonight ... hope I'm not boring anyone too much!
Next chapter ... Phillip Island (and those gorgeous little Fairy Penguins).

On a different note ... Australian Idol ... I have never been an idol fan, but this season I have gotten really hooked. I happened to flick over on the tv one night when the auditions were on and seen Jessica sing, she has got the most amazing voice and I continued to watch to see whether she progressed. Well, 4 to go ... I think Dean is great too, but really hope Jess wins!

Keep Smiling ... JULIE x