Wilsons Promontory

Just three hours from Melbourne, and you enter a coastal region that was once reached Tasmania.  This coastal area of huge granite boulders and delicate ferns provides a wide variety of outdoor experiences.

moist liverworts grow on the damp gutter of the track The coastal Banksia begins to flower red lichens trim the shore of the southern most point in mainland Australia
this wiry coral fern, Gleichinia microphylla, grows rampant in the moist gulleys Standing against the wind, only walkers may visit this spot summer is the time for Blue Olive berry fruit. Which animal eats this?
once Dinosaurs would have squashed this ancient conifer Now, out of reach, Mt Wilson dominates the southern half of the Prom the pool on the sandy isthmus reflects the clouds above this sea side park

These digital photographs were taken in February 2000