A wet morning at Biloela but it was fine by lunchtime on our day trip to Cania Gorge.

The Big Director’s Chair at Biloela – Billie Brown was an actor and director of stage plays in Australia and Great Britain working at times with his friend Geoffrey Rush. He also worked in film and television starring in movies including Fierce Freatures (with John Cleese), The Dish and Chronicles of Narnia.

Broad-leaved bottle tree flowers in Biloela

The water tank at Biloela tells the story this area from prehistoric times to modern day.

Walking track to The Overhang at Cania Gorge National Park

Little Kurrajong (Brachychiton bidwilli) flowers (above) and seed pods (below)

The track winds up a narrow gorge with a dry creek bed

The track passes through rainforest containing tulipwood (Harpullia pendula) with its distinctive pods. Each flower produces two large seeds.

Ferns are plentiful on the moist southern side of the gorge.

Umbrella fern (Sticherus flabellatus)

As the track nears the sandstone escarpment, heath plants occur at its base.

Re-entering a rainforest transition zone

Dripping rock is a layer of more porous sandstone

The boardwalk continues around the southern part of the escarpment

A softer layer of sandstone with ochre pigments

Silver elkhorn (Platycerium veitchii) grows exclusively on rock faces in Queensland’s sandstone belt and north Queensland sandstones and granites.

Descending down along the escarpment to The Overhang

Entrance to the Overhang

The Overhang

Return track along the escarpment

Emerald dove foraging on the forest floor

The Two Storey Cave Circuit climbs to the western side of the Three Moon Creek Gorge

Crows ash (Flindersia australis) hugging the cliff

The entry to King Orchid Crevice

King Orchid Crevice

King orchid (Dendrobium speciosum)

Hoya vine in King Orchid Crevice

Exit from King Orchid Crevice

Fire had recently raged up this slope

View east across Three Moon Creek valley

Lower part of Two Storey Cave

Two Storey Cave

Xanthorrhoeas recovering after the fire

Salmon trunked gums adding colour to the firescape

We were rewarded another sighting of a flock of bustards in the irrigated paddocks