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Clare McVeigh from the Sydney TWS office organised another weekend trip to check out forests south of Sydney. We camped at Depot Beach in Murramarang National Park four two nights and drove about the place with various enthusiastic locals showing us the sights.

Here's the official plan that tells you much of what we did, so you can make some sense of the pictures.

Friday 18th June


We will head straight for Monga State Forest with a stop off for lunch at approx 12pm at Gouldburn. Arrive Monga approx 2pm.
Tour of the beautiful Monga rainforest 1hr 30mins.
1 hour drive to Depot beach, Murramarang national Park (near Bateman’s Bay), set up camp and prepare dinner.

Saturday 19th June


8.30am - Breakfast and quick run down on the day's agenda
9.30am - leave for the Eucalypt Walk in Murramarang national Park to discover some of the different varieties of Eucalypts.
11.30am leave for Boyne State Forest to see poisoned tree area with Mark Flemming (local campaigner)
1.30pm leave for South Brooman to see tree ‘thinning’
2.30pm leave for South Durras where will meet John Perkins for tea and cake and a chance to do tree climbing with Scott Daines
5pm (sunset) Glider spotting at South Durras with John

Sunday 20th June


9am relaxed breakfast, pack up camp and a chance to do some more tree climbing and exploring.
11am - Big bit look out
12pm visit ‘Old Blotchy’, 500year old Spotted Gum at South Brooman State Forest
1.30pm Set off for Sydney with an hour stop off at Berry to look around and have a snack.
Approx 6.30pm Arrive back at the TWS office, Sydney. (I include this so you can have a laugh. We actually got back earlier than expected, at about 8pm.

Val showing us around a (very dry) Monga rainforest Rain on the river in Monga In camp at last! Depot Beach in Murramarang National Park. Clare with the plan. Mark Flemming showing us around a poisoned tree coupe in Boyne State Forest. Note the required 65% canopy cover left in the coupe in the background. Sooty looking at poison holes on a habitat tree outside the official poisoning area. Looks as though State Forests decided to "manage" this tree as well. Other side of the road - not poisoned, just thinned. Looks disturbingly like plantation. In the van... we spent a lot of time driving over the three days. But that meant we got to see a lot of different areas. Sooty talking about how logging coupes are supposed to be managed, and how this one is actually done. Big old ironbark in the background.which is a winter flowering tree and therefore important to animals. Should have been marked as a habitat tree but hasn't been. Note the debris around the base which means that it will definitely be burnt when they burn off this bit of forest. Debris dries and burns, because it's so close it provides a long-duration fire at the base of the tree. Local resident outside John Perkin's place. Sugar glider marks on a tree. Clare at Durras Lake. Greater Glider at Durras Lake. Greater Glider at Durras Lake. This is what you normally see when spotlighting them. Greater Glider at Durras Lake. Sunrise at Depot Beach. Sunrise at Depot Beach. Sunrise at Depot Beach. Tony prepares for a (brisk) swim. Sunrise at Depot Beach. Sooty being eyeballed by a kangaroo. Too young to climb, but not too young to play. Tree traffic. Sooty, Clare and Steve cross paths. Rachel. Trev. Old Blotchy. Its circumference is officially 14 hippies. There was a theory that Rachel would climb onto the shoulders of Clare and Rain. She didn't.
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