Mossman Gorge, tireless forest workers and natural airconditioning

For reasons too numerous and convoluted to be explained in any great detail here I found myself at Mossman Gorge Wednesday morning, feeling very much like a child in a sweet store not being able to decide where to focus my gaze as I wandering along the track running into the Daintree.

Mossman is 75 km north of Cairns in Far North Queensland, on the southern edge of the Daintree National Park...5 mins west of the town of Mossman is Mossman Gorge, a quite remarkably beautiful spot where the Mossman river tumbles over smooth boulders as it makes its way down towards the coast.

 

I had never visited this part of FNQ before and did not really know what to expect...despite the longer forest walking track and the suspension bridge over the river being closed, I was not dissappointed by the natural beauty of the rainforest and the flowing river.

It is however difficult to imagine how such a narrow access paths can cope with the many thousands of tourists that must visit there every year.....

A quiet stroll in the rainforest..just don't stop on the bridges!

Everyone move to the left please...no I mean right...RIGHT!

But no matter what troubles you, just lose yourself in this beautiful environment...

Some of the tireless forest workers that make the rainforest (indeed all forests and woodlands) the kind of place we want to spend time in....

Can't see them???....Look closer...

All that hard work has its own rewards.....

After all that effort I needed to cool off, photographing fungi is hard work you know...(apparently it is snowing in the UK..hmm that must be cold.... ;>p....)