Today Sunday 26/10/2008, for the second time, my husband and I went for a stroll through the Blue Gum Forest on the way to a viewing area overlooking the Agnes Falls. It is near a small town of Toora, 160 km South East Of Melbourne, in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. I really enjoyed walking underneath the canopy of the Blue Gum forest. It was an easy leisure walk.
Agnes Falls Scenic Reserve protects a small remnant of the forests that once covered the Stzrelecki Ranges. Tall southern blue gums together with blackwood and silver wattles grow within the sheltered gorge and along the banks of the Agnes River.
The canopy of tall eucalypts provides food and nesting areas for a variety of birds including the eastern yellow robin, grey fantail, laughing kookaburra, currawong and crimson rosella and a range of honeyeaters.
At night possums and owls emerge from tree hollows to feed amongst the spreading branches of the eucalypts. If you are lucky you may catch a glimpse of a swamp wallaby disappearing into the bush.
A Typical of Australian Wilderness - Toolangie Forest
This is a sonnet that I wrote about the Blue Gum Forest during our first visit to the area about two years ago.
Blue Gum Forest
Nature’s wonder of a gum-forest blue
Tall trees are racing to reach heaven’s bliss
Sunlight peeps down in long beams of white hue
Warms the soil covered by falling debris
Savour the essence of eucalypt perfume
Right here marsupials roam and wander
Birds sing perfect tunes and wild flowers bloom
Teems with life forests refuse to retire
The greatness of magical forest life
Natures’ own ecosystem in perfection
Living things support each other to thrive
Forests are vital for Earth’s condition
Stroll in a blue gum forest and enjoy
Save it’s ecosystem we tend to destroy
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