Strangler Tree

Up in Cape Tribulation on a rainforest walk, we found many of these strangler trees...they grow on other trees after being planted there by the dung of birds who ingest their seeds, then they grow huge and essentially strangle the larger, base tree.

The reef and the rainforest

April 12th 2008
My friend Jack, from England, whom we have been travelling with since our last day in Cairns, has just started a travel journal. He has been travelling for a few months, and has been to SE Asia and throughout Australia, and he is on day 6 of his travels as he recaps them in his journal. This makes me feel better about my blogging abilities..I can't wait to update this so I can continue to add ne ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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