What time is it there?!

We're heading east across the bottom of the country now. Amongst other things it's apple growing country around here but there are also an awful lot of trees. There are 2 or 3 places where you can climb the trees that are used as fire lookouts, although we only climbed one! On the day we visited there was a controlled fire being carried out in the area, so it was lucky that we met one of the wardens who explained this to us before we drove through the area because at times it didn't look all that 'controlled'.

We took a bit of a detour to follow up on another tip from someone we met in a hostel. This time we were looking for the village of Donnelly River, where we were told that the local shopkeeper feeds much of the local wildlife in the morning and evenings. When we arrived (in the middle of the day) we weren't really sure whether we had found the right place as it seemed to be almost deserted. We were just about to give up when we spotted an emu wandering around someone's garden, the only sign of life in the village so far. After eating our lunch on the local picnic bench nothing else had appeared so we decided to drive to the other end of the main 'street', turn around, and then head on to our next stop. Fortunately we chose the right direction and found numerous Kangeroos and Emus just resting in the shade at the end of the road. We were able to get quite close to them, and most of them just viewed us with suspicion and continued to lie in the shade, but one or two of the younger Kangaroos still found tourists a bit of a novelty (although they soon lost interest when it was clear that we weren't going to offer any food!).

We were climbing trees again at the "Tree Top Walk" , which basically involves a series of walkways that take you 40m up into the trees. This gives some pretty good views, and on the day we were there also quite an entertaining 'ride' as it sways about a bit in the breeze!