TazMania Part II - Fungi Town

After I've completed the "Walls" 2 days track I went to the central and possibly the more famous part of Tasmania's heritage site - Cradle mountain - Lake St. Clair NP. I could taunt you again with some boring landscape shots but what's really fascinating about this area - aside from having some of Austrlia's most beatiful tracks - is that it is also one of the last true old-growth temperate rain forests left. It is therefore a home to an unknown number of amazing cool, dark and damp-loving species of fungi. Of course, they have a very important ecological function of decomposing the forests' rot, but some of them are just strikingly beautiful. I just had to stop at some point because I had started to run out of memory space...








































































It is quite difficult to know how such tiny organisms will look like once they are magnified. I just loved the way that the light was coming through this fungi colony living on an old stump. I was actually amazed when it turned out to be a jellyfish-like close-up...