Nightcap National Park, Byron Bay

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Nightcap National Park, Byron Bay

[Public Domain] 1 Jan 2005 Dylan O'Donnell
CATEGORY : Landscape
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“Almost 5,000 hectares of Nightcap National Park was given World Heritage status in 1989 when it was added to the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA) group.” – tropicalnsw.com.au

The view of the forest canopy here shows the dense tropical rainforest typical of northern NSW and Queensland. A great habitat for species found there such as Little bent-winged bat, Wompoo fruit-dove, Masked owl, Stephen’s banded snake and Red-legged pademelon. Apparently, Fleay’s barred frog and Coxen’s fig-parrot have also been recorded there.

I took this photo handheld from the lookout at the top of Minyon Falls and with a faster ISO, fast shutter (1/125) and a steady hand I managed to exposure the area underneath the passing cloud clearly. The other areas in sunlight appear a little washed out and some area of the original has been cropped away for that reason.

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