Waking up in Lamington Plateau means waking up to brilliant sunshine and the chorus of hundreds of birds singing in the trees above your head. The air smells like the rich soils still wet from the overnight storm, and you can hear the sweet sound of bacon sizzling in the kitchen tent. As half the […]

For our second day at North Stradbroke Island, we had a lecture where we learned about the flora of the island. For example, the mangrove forests and the 18 mile swamp. We then visited the mangrove forests after morning tea. At the mangrove forests we walked down a small creek and noticed how the species […]

Our final day at Lamington Plateau began with a morning full of field activities and invertebrate study. We learned how to gather arachnids such as the funnel web spider by digging into the ground with a trowel and removing the spider from its burrow. We learned how to sift leaf litter and soil to look […]

Our journey to Lamington National Park began in the early hours of a calm Tuesday. We arrived, the sun was shining, and we hustled through setting up camp. Satisfied with our work, we set off for lecture, where we learned about rainforest ecosystems and had a preview of what our field studies would be for […]