Some species of Xanthorrhoea are not only resistant to fire but are actually stimulated to flower by it. One of the many waterfalls along the return trail from Bithongabel at Lamington. Major Features of this Field Trip 1. The park is home to a number of interesting and exotic birds such as king parrots, crimson rosellas, regent and satin bower birds, lyre birds, honeyeaters, logrunners, scrub turkeys, Eastern yellow robins, tawny frogmouths, and so on. Anita Smyth, an ornithologist from the University of Queensland, leads a morning bird walk at Lamington.
Some trees develop huge buttresses for additional support in the thin soils in the rainforest.
Several early lectures in Brisbane highlighted Australia's distant Gondwanan origins and its more recent geographic isolation and what this has meant for the evolution of plants and animals on the continent. These trees now only occur here and in isolated spots in South America, but are contained in the Antarctic fossil record. This points to a time when all four continents were connected near the south pole and global temperatures were much warmer. Majestic Antarctic Beeches in the mist at Lamington. A walk on a rope and wood slat bridge through the canopy of the forest.