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Winter 2025, South West WA (#13 in series: little, living)

 

Warren National Park’s Karri-dominated forest is – by Australian standards – a moist, cool environment, albeit definitely not rainforest.

Most visitors mostly look up; for many tourists, the Warren’s big trees are the tallest living things they have ever seen.

It is also a good idea to look down, to pay attention to non-huge things, and to remember that “dead” wood is never lifeless.

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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: bark, moss, fungi & leaf litter

 

 

If you are partial to mosses and fungi, the premier South Australian place is the floor of the old-growth stringybark forest in Deep Creek National Park.

The best time to go there is midwinter, in a cool, wet winter.

It is less than two hours’ easy driving away from Adelaide, but in a “proper winter” this forest “feels” like another planet.

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