Spend half an hour or several hours hiking taking photos in the spectacular Lamington National Park. Declared in 1915, it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area. It includes the most extensive areas of subtropical rainforest in the world, most of the world's warm temperate rainforest and nearly all of the Antarctic beech (Nothofagus moorei) cool temperate rainforest.
On the park's many walking tracks you can see subtropical rainforest, ancient beech trees, hoop pines, eucalypt forest and montane heath - and if you are quiet and lucky, some of the area's incredible variety of wildlife. Keep a look-out in the trees for the many species of colourful birds. On the ground you might see the shiny black scales of the largest known skink - the land mullet - a harmless, thick-set, lizard. You may even be lucky to spy a carpet python basking in the sun.
In the picnic areas, red-necked pademelons are commonly seen early morning and late afternoon foraging on grass. Mountain brushtail possums (bobucks), with their dense black fur, are usually seen in rainforest trees at night.
