The Far Side

 With apologies to Larson!

On 5 July we met up with the Footmobiles for a visit to the Marshmead campus near Howe Flat.  The route was 66 km from home with the final 20 km or so on a fair quality dirt road.  We noted that the Maxwell's Rainforest Walk is still in a distressingly abandoned condition (with no evidence of it ever being rehabilitated).  We stopped to morning tea at the Mallacoota Lookout, marked as X in the map.

We did indeed look out over Mallacoota.  Note the small open area just on this side of the Inlet.

A closer view of the Inlet.  The extent of sand of the Goodwins is quite obvious.

A close up view of the open area, showing the cabins of Marshmead.

After signing in to Marshmead as visitors we walked through the settlement to the jetty noting a spiffy male Satin Bowerbird.  There were a lot (I guesstimated 10) of green birds around.

.... where lunch was taken.  An Azure Kingfisher was seen (not by me).

Returning to the cars we then headed off to the rainforest walk.

A view of the forest alongside the open approach area.

The track went under a canopy of tree ferns.  I think there were two species present: a few Dicksonia antarctica but mainly Cyathea australis.  I didn't notice any Cyathea leichardtiana a few specimens of which were present in Maxwell's rainforest when we last visited (before the Black Summer fire.

A few interesting fungi.