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Home » Destinations » Australia » Queensland » Treasures to find at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat

Treasures to find at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat

August 11, 2020 By Jennifer Johnston Leave a Comment

Last updated 6 February 2021

In these restrictive travel times, I have been able to get out and explore places close to home.

A two-hour drive from home is O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat

On Green Mountain, the O’Reilly family have been hosting guests from the late 1920s when visitors would travel up the rough trail via horse and on foot to stay in the secluded guest house.

A century later, the rough goat trail has been replaced by a sealed road into O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat. The numerous of hairpin turns still provides a sense of adventure.

I’ve been trying to teach myself how to edit photos taken on my Sony A7 III purchased just before the world went into turmoil with COVID 19.

Green vine wraps around a tree trunk

Shades of green make it way up the side of a tree branch in Lamington National Park

Here’s a few images snapped during my last visit at the beginning of August.

What a beautiful state I live in!

 

A young man wearing a gray sweatshirt and long pants looks up into the trees surrounded by rainforest

James stands under the rainforest canopy in Lamington National Park

Crimson Rosella bird perched on a fence with seed in his beak

Crimson Rosella at O’Reilly’s Rainforest retreat

Image is a close up of the green lichen covering tree limb

Close up of the green lichen found throughout the rainforests of Australia’s Lamington National Park

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