Lamington National Park – one of the few remnants of cool Gondwanan rainforest left in the world, and home to some fantastic species of trees. Massive Lophostemons and Araucaria, ancient Nothofagus cunninghamii and the weird, slow-motion death-throes of luckless trees locked in the tentacles of huge strangler-figs form a waving green canopy along the rim of the Tweed Caldera.
In the picture above, you can just see Jeremie Thomas, of mt.arborist, breaking into the sunshine above the dense rainforest canopy, as he SRTs up into the crown of a gigantic Lophostemon confertus. Similar trees elsewhere in the park have been carbon-dated at over 1,500 years old, making these some of the oldest trees in Australia. From the crown, the view stretched away over a sea of gently swaying green toward the distant waters of the Pacific.