Wompoo


Sunday 29th July –Central Station, Basin Lake, Lake McKenzie and the Maheno Wreck

The boardwalk from central station to Basin Lake is well frequented but the lake itself is extremely secluded and still. There is no watercourse running to or from the lake which makes it something like an amphitheatre. Rob spotted a freshwater turtle whilst we were there and a large sea eagle kept watch as we [...]

The Wompoo

The Wompoo

As I mentioned in my article about the first day we spent on Fraser Island, while we were walking back through the rainforest to Central Station, we saw a bird which my bird book suggests is a Wompoo.
This bird was good enough to hang around while we took some photographic evidence to help identification too [...]