Sub Tropical Rainforest here in Queensland

[Hedo69]

This past month my son Brian was visiting from the states. One Sunday afternoon, we drove to the mountains to walk through the rainforests we have here (subtropical). Thought you guys might be interested in some of our local flora and fauna.


View from mountain top overlooking forest


Huge gum tree, for reference, Brian is 6'4".


Sunshine and canopy


It has been raining a bit and the mushroom and fungi that was growing was spectacular.


The combination of palms, ferns, eucaclyptis, plus the heady smells of rain and soil were wonderful









The famed Funnel Web Spider. One of the deadliest in the world. The funny thing was that we couldn't see into the hole at all as it was too dark in there. I didn't realize the spider was so close til we got home and put the pics on the computer. Eeek! (not that it would have stopped me, but I wouldn't have got so close!)





Fronds and fungi...lovely magical little mushrooms.

Was a great day trip!

[innit Geezer]

Great pictures Deb!
I'm glad folks are posting their photos, it gives us an insight to the corners of the globe.

[Merlot Joe]

Great to hear from you kid. Nice photos. As Gary mentioned it's nice to see differnt parks of the world and what they have.

JOe

[innit Geezer]

I'm a poor substitute for Bukkake Boy but here goes:

Glad your forest is doing fine, it's always good to hear things are going well down under.

[Hedo69]

That gave me a chuckle Gary! My forest is indeed doing fine!

Thanks for that and for helping inspire us all to post some of these photos we all have. If I keep going as planned, you guys will get Debpics overload!

[Irish Stu]

Photobucket is saying that the pictures have been moved or deleted. Looks like I missed out on seeing them

Simon

[Hedo69]

Simon, they're still showing on my end? Not sure what's up...haven't moved or deleted in Photobucket. Can anyone else see them or is it just me since I posted them?

Deb

[Cherbunny]

Sorry Deb, but I can't see them either.

Modified to add note: I checked out Photobucket and your pics are still there.

[Hedo69]

Is there any easy fix or will I need to repost/reload them? Any ideas?

[innit Geezer]

It's a pain but once in awhile my pictures don't come up and I have to repaste the URL back in. As of now, 7:21p.m. EST, they aren't showing.

[Hedo69]

Ok, I've reposted the links...do they show up now? I can't rely on me looking, cause they never went away here.

Thanks guys!

[innit Geezer]

All the pictures show.