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New England National Park is a beautiful area half way between Armidale and Coffs Harbour. It has lots of mountains, rivers and rainforest (walks map).

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Sunrise

Early dawn on the way ...

sunrise

Looking down on the clouds at Point Lookout (and a video).

sunrise

sunrise

Landscape

There is sparse forest on the way up to the lookout, with a few cows around.

grass

Lots of mountain views on the trails.

mountains

mountains

mountains

Rivers

I love this spot.

river

river closeup

A rushing stream.

stream

Rainforest

So green!

rainforest

A leaf covered path.

rainforest path

Plants growing on other plants.

branch

mossy branch

Lots of vines ...

rainforest

Moss covered rocks.

rainforest path

Animals

A bird that let me get really close ... I think it was trying to keep warm by not moving.

bird

Wallaby near Thungutti camping ground.

wallaby

Interesting pattern on this slug.

slug

Plants

Lots of these flowers around.

flowers

Plenty of fungi.

fungi

I think something had been eating this!

fungi

Pretty seed pods.

plant

Ice

After some snow in the region, I visited New England National Park in July 2015. There was ice everywhere!

Some ice crystals.

ice crystals

Curly ice!

curly ice

Lots of frozen puddles, which made it crunchy underfoot.

frozen puddle

frozen puddle

Natural ice sculpture – a branch had been sprayed with mist from a waterfall, which had frozen overnight (video).

ice covered branch

Icicles!

icicles

icicles

Some leaves got encased in ice.

icy leaves

icy leaves

Water usually trickles down this rock ... now it was all icicles.

icy leaves

Weeping Rock was covered in ice. It normally looks like this ...

weeping rock

... but now it looked like this:

weeping rock with ice

weeping rock with ice

By the time I got there there the ice was melting, and bits were breaking off and falling from the cliff (video 1, video 2).

ice melting

Photos copyright © David Fisher 2017. Comments or question to davidfisher@australiaonline.net.au
(if you ask permission to use photos, I’ll almost certainly give it).

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