Jurasic Park?

Nope - just one of the many woodlands around Melbourne worthy of exploration on foot. I was fortunate to have a personal guide in Gorgie to the woodlands around Berwick and this enabled me to take in the sights and sounds of ‘Lyrebird walk’ among other scenic spots - a favourite haunt for avian wildlife as they have become used to being fed by visitors… The white cockatoos squawk raucously for their meals and put on quite a display, while the more timid Rosetta’s watch on from the branches for an opportunity to snatch a tit-bit. However, if you want to get away from the tourist throngs then head into the woodland on the well marked paths, here you can lose yourself among ‘pre-historic’ type ferns and immense trees trailing huge strips of bark. The bark remains hanging from branches or laying on the ground in serpentine heaps. As we walk into the forest I get the feeling of being back to the age of the dinosaurs with the undergrowth encroaching on every side of the muddy path, while light filters through fern fronds and eerie noises emanate from all around me. Marvellous :)
While walking in the forest we hear lots of bird calls and eventually see one of the soures, a pair of black cockatoos tearing into the branches of a tree after grubs - clearly they knew what they were after ;)

The last stop of the day was the Cardinia reservoir, which is an large, almost full, lake with several picnic areas surrounding it, I am told that it is at its highest level in years after surprisingly heavy rainfall this year. It is also going to be the site for the storage of future desalinised water from a newly developed site on the coast... hmm… This will be an interesting development to keep tabs on as it is an important source of drinking water for the surrounding area and Melbourne.