Falls, birds and strangling trees

Our next stop on the tour was millaa millaa falls. The advert for herbal essences a few year ago, with the woman flipping her hair in the water, the waterfall. It is again insanely beautiful here. I feel like a lot of Cairns tropics is like that but definitely here. I also spotted some fish and a turtle in the water and then a very curious Turkey wandered by and attempted to get into someone's bag. It was not successful.

After spending some time at the waterfall, we headed for lunch. A surprisingly good burger for a random town in the middle of nowhere. They also had a really cute hippie shop that sold literally everything.

Then it was off to the strangling fig tree. This thing is wild, and aptly named. The seeds land on a tree and winds its roots down to the forest floor, then grows its branches and wraps around the tree. Its roots take all the water and nutrients from the ground, and its leaves overs the trees sunlight so the tree dies and rots away inside. Nature is genuinely crazy with some of its inventions. But the coolest part of this one is that the tree inside didn't rot away, it feel over. So this fig tree is now slowly wrapping itself around the tree next to the first one. It is the King of all the fig trees and the most insane thing. You can also see around the forest were other figtrees are beginning to grow. The tree sprouts figs every few years and birds then distribute the seeds across the forest. All of those trees are doomed!Baca lagi