Spend enough time moving through rainforest, and you begin to notice that the creeks are not incidental features. They are the skeleton of the forest itself. I’ve walked through dozens of tropical rainforests across Central America, Southeast Asia, and the…
Mount Hypipamee sits in the Atherton Tablelands, a pocket of rainforest that feels isolated even though it’s accessible by road. The crater itself is the draw for most visitors – a sinkhole lake surrounded by steep walls – but the…
Rainforest mist is not something that happens everywhere in a rainforest, and it’s not something that happens at all times. After spending years moving through tropical highlands – from Central America to Southeast Asia to East Africa – I’ve learned…
The first time I walked beneath a canopy of tree ferns in a Queensland rainforest, I understood why early European explorers found these places so disorienting. The sheer scale of the fronds overhead – some stretching 15 meters or more…
Curtis Falls sits in one of Queensland’s oldest rainforest reserves, and the walk to reach it has become something of a default choice for people visiting Mount Tamborine. The appeal is obvious: it’s marketed as accessible, it’s close to the…
The Atherton Tablelands sit at around 600 to 900 metres elevation in Far North Queensland, and the rainforest here operates differently than the lowland tropical forests most people imagine. After spending considerable time moving through these forests – early mornings,…
Spend enough time in recovering forests, and you start to notice the birds before you notice much else. They arrive in waves – sometimes dozens of species in a single morning – moving through the canopy with purpose, stripping berries…
Lake Barrine sits in the Atherton Tableland, surrounded by one of Australia’s oldest rainforests. The walk around it is frequently described as easy, scenic, and manageable for most fitness levels. That’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete. After multiple visits across…
The rainforest walks around the Gold Coast hinterland are reliable enough that you can count on them for a half-day or full-day outing, but they’re also crowded enough that timing matters more than most visitors realise. I’ve done these walks…