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Forests Forever is the annual easter gathering in Goongerah, East Gippsland (home of the longest running forest blockade in Oz, Goolengook). This year seemingly organised by Jill and Liz with lots of others helping. The area is very diverse - from alpine forest right down to the coast, rainforest to arid. More detail at EastGippsland.net.au and GECO.

Bombala boys are we Fungus on the track up Mt Ellery Granite outcropping on the track up Mt Ellery Paul. Liz explaining that it's going to be fun. Jill. A big queue - there were lots of people at the camp. And we all wanted to go on the big tour. Damien. We're in regrowth that was clearfelled a few years ago and is now turing back into "forest" - single species, single age "forest". Down further into a coupe cleared recently. Actually quite a clean clearfell by the usual standards - a fair number of habitat trees, not a lot of useable timber on the ground. Looking at the remains. A releif to be back in the forest again. Regrowth from the big fires in 1939. Note that the trees are all much the same size and species. This is at the start of the walk to the Ocean View Lookout. Cloudy conditions at the Ocean View Lookout. More mixed age and species forest. Dirt roads... big convoy... lots of dust. David Campbell Down in the rainforest with the big tree ferns. Similar to NZ except with gum trees and leeches. And a drought - it was not very wet at all. Measuring trees with Jill on the Sunday. We ran about in the forest looking for big trees. Note the pink tape on the tree to the left. It's Jills marker tape so we don't get lost... except that there were several different sets of it in the area. Much fun was had at one stage working out which set we were following. Lots of rainforest trees germinate on tree ferns where it's relatively dry and predator-free. Even tree ferns do this, which leads to some confusing shapes. Using a fallen tree as an easy track. Sign back in camp. There was a river running through the camp. Note the cool whirlpoll. Edited sign at the GECO house. McKillops Bridge McKillops Bridge. Very dry, but also pretty flowering things. Alpine forest through the Snowy on the way home. Note the sparse tree cover. A lot of this area burned about 14 months ago. And now looks like this. There's lots of regrowth evident but it's still looking very dry. And the obligatory cycle tourist. We saw two of them on the 100+km gravel road through to Jindabyne.
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