Walking on a forest’s or woodland’s floor often yields a great deal of visual delight, as most living humans have directly experienced.
However, relatively few humans have experienced the pleasure of looking down to a forest’s floor, from forest canopy height, or higher.
The view from “up there” is usually a visual treat in its own right.
In recent decades – across a growing number of nations – the construction of elevated walkways has made that experience newly/readily-accessible to millions.
(such walkways also spare tree roots from the potentially-lethal impact of too-many tourists’ feet compacting the relevant soil)
The very same forest looks astonishingly different, when one’s feet are more than 20 metres above the ground.
When I took this post’s photo on 31 October 2018 my feet were on the Otway Fly’s treetop walkway, circa 30 metres above the rainforest’s floor.
Southwestern Victoria’s Otway Range – generally known as “the Otways” – is handsomely the wettest part of southwestern Victoria.
The Otways’ “high country” rises from the inland side of The Great Ocean Road.
They are modestly high – lower than the Adelaide Hills – but the Otways are much more lush.
As well as its elevated steel walkway and observation tower, the Otway Fly has zip lines, along which “brave” visitors can “fly” through the forest; click here for more images and info.
It is less than one hour’s drive from Apollo Bay, along 2WD-friendly roads.
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