Congratulations to this week’s AG Flickr group member Beau, for his image ‘Eastern Yellow Robin’. “’A couple of weeks ago I decided to head out to Melbourne’s east and get amongst the towering mountain ash forests of the Dandenong Ranges. As a keen twitcher, I had the goal of coming home with good shots of… View Article
Hints of autumn at the National Rhododendron Garden in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.
The fern–eucalypt association is the Dandenong’s signature. Every track or mountain road swooping down the flanks of the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, seems to reveal another lavish, frond-filled gully. Among them, Sherbrooke Forest is one of the prime strongholds of temperate rainforest, a haven of mountain ash, mountain grey gums, silver wattle, soft tree ferns, blackwood and southern sassafras. Far from the nearest road, the only sounds in the valley stillness are the distant screeches of sulphur-crested cockatoos and the gurgle of water from the creek below.
The lush and much-loved mountains of Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges are an easily reached backyard haven for almost 1/4 of Australia’s population