Australia...Homeland
My Heart, Australia (Gold Coast)
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Point Danger overlooking Duranbah - Border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia
Friends
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Ocean's Alive
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Horizons
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Surf's Up
Over The Hills And Far Away
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Oz Magic
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Cedar Creek Falls - View from the top
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Head of Cedar Creek Falls
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Blue Heaven
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Sun's Last Kiss
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Nature's Circle
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Curtis Falls
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Strangler Fig.1
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The seeds of the strangler fig are sown through animal (usually bird) droppings in the rainforest canopy. Once they find a host tree, they germinate and slowly begin to grow tentacles that go down the tree and around the trunk. They also grow a canopy of thick leaves. The leaves block the sunlight and serve to rob the host tree of necessary nutrients while the tentacles strangle the tree itself over decades or a couple of hundred years. Finally the host tree is dead and the strangler fig is all that remains in its place.
Strangler Fig.2
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The seeds of the strangler fig are sown through animal (usually bird) droppings in the rainforest canopy. Once they find a host tree, they germinate and slowly begin to grow tentacles that go down the tree and around the trunk. They also grow a canopy of thick leaves. The leaves block the sunlight and serve to rob the host tree of necessary nutrients while the tentacles strangle the tree itself over decades or a couple of hundred years. Finally the host tree is dead and the strangler fig is all that remains in its place.
Treetop Walk
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Flood
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Sacred Ibis
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