In Search of my Rock Wallaby Population: ascending Bonsai Falls
This is an environment I love and have been exploring. And as a result I have taken every scientist I know that would come into such terrain so that together we could identify, record and explain what was there: plants, fauna, geology, landforms, scenery aesthetics and fire history. It has been a fascinating journey, and we have succeeded in advocating for this landscape to transition from forestry to national park protected area! It is an exciting story.
As Kingaham Creek descends from the plateau formed at the junction of the Yabba and Jimna Ranges, it courses over a variety of geologies including Kingaham granite, Amamoor beds of metamorphic rocks, Gallangowan granodiorite, and here it begins it descent over greenstone. Bonsai Falls and Broken Femur Falls are sculpted in greenstone but then a basaltic dyke crosses the gorge creating a barrier with a deep pool eroded behind it and Blue Dyke Falls plunging over the dyke.
Photographed are 3 Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service staff who were following through on my discovery of a rock wallaby population in this vicinity. Camera traps were set up, rock wallabies and other species recorded, and DNA identification is now to be undertaken to identify the species or if in fact they may be a hybrid of 2 possible spp.
In Search of my Rock Wallaby Population: ascending Bonsai Falls
This is an environment I love and have been exploring. And as a result I have taken every scientist I know that would come into such terrain so that together we could identify, record and explain what was there: plants, fauna, geology, landforms, scenery aesthetics and fire history. It has been a fascinating journey, and we have succeeded in advocating for this landscape to transition from forestry to national park protected area! It is an exciting story.
As Kingaham Creek descends from the plateau formed at the junction of the Yabba and Jimna Ranges, it courses over a variety of geologies including Kingaham granite, Amamoor beds of metamorphic rocks, Gallangowan granodiorite, and here it begins it descent over greenstone. Bonsai Falls and Broken Femur Falls are sculpted in greenstone but then a basaltic dyke crosses the gorge creating a barrier with a deep pool eroded behind it and Blue Dyke Falls plunging over the dyke.
Photographed are 3 Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service staff who were following through on my discovery of a rock wallaby population in this vicinity. Camera traps were set up, rock wallabies and other species recorded, and DNA identification is now to be undertaken to identify the species or if in fact they may be a hybrid of 2 possible spp.