Misty Mountains
In the Misty Mountains, we both hiked through a rainforest track which led up to a place called Rhyolite Pinnacle - the trail was pretty 'tangly' and overgrown, but it was still nice to explore a bit!
We went to Lake Barrine - a crater lake - also surrounded by rainforest, which was really pretty. Then drove around Lake Tinnaroo, which is pretty big, and has loads of beautiful camping spots down by the lake - looked like a great family place!
We did a couple of huge walks - like at least 200m :) - to some fig trees, and some old volcanic craters. The fig trees are really cool: basically, a small seed starts to grow on the branch of an already existing tree. The roots stretch down to the ground, so they are long and dangly. They start wrapping around the host tree for support, creating a kind of lattice. Eventually the host tree dies, and there is a hollow left inside a criss-cross pattern of the 'fig' tree roots. With the curtain fig tree, the host has fallen sideways into another, so the roots were spread out quite wide - it had a really pretty effect!
We went to Lake Barrine - a crater lake - also surrounded by rainforest, which was really pretty. Then drove around Lake Tinnaroo, which is pretty big, and has loads of beautiful camping spots down by the lake - looked like a great family place! 
We did a couple of huge walks - like at least 200m :) - to some fig trees, and some old volcanic craters. The fig trees are really cool: basically, a small seed starts to grow on the branch of an already existing tree. The roots stretch down to the ground, so they are long and dangly. They start wrapping around the host tree for support, creating a kind of lattice. Eventually the host tree dies, and there is a hollow left inside a criss-cross pattern of the 'fig' tree roots. With the curtain fig tree, the host has fallen sideways into another, so the roots were spread out quite wide - it had a really pretty effect!
posted by Mhairi
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