New Images 2: Mount Royal National Park
Mount Royal National Park lies on the southern fall of the 1600-metre-high Barrington Plateau. Most of the park is wilderness and some is within the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area. With relief of over 1000 metres, high rainfall and fertile, basalt-derived soils, the area supports a rich and spectacular assemblage of forests: subtropical, temperate and cool temperate rainforests and tall eucalypts. Over a wet-at-times, four-day bushwalk in spring we found richly flowering orchids and forest shrubs, as well as coppery new growth on Antarctic Beech trees. Red Cedars and Giant Stinging Trees were also common, the latter rather nerve-racking.
