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A year later, Voyages purchased Odyssey Tours and Safaris, Coconut Beach Rainforest Lodge and Ferntree Rainforest Lodge. Luxury resort, Longitude 131°, was opened in June 2002 under the Voyages banner. [1] In July 2004, Voyages acquired P&O Australian Resorts, adding properties in Tasmania, Queensland and on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Dandenong Ranges National Park is a national park located in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria, Australia.The 3,540-hectare (8,700-acre) national park is situated from 31 kilometres (19 mi) at its westernmost points at Ferntree Gully and Boronia to 45 kilometres (28 mi) at its easternmost point at Silvan, east of the Melbourne central business district.
Ferntree Gully – is a rainforest area 17 kilometres north of Rylstone. Walking tracks take visitors down into cool narrow fern tree-studded valley floor and unusual rock formations [56] Wollemi National Park – is the second largest national park in New South Wales, and contains a large part of the Wollemi Wilderness area.
Ferntree Creek is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 97 km north of Brisbane. 50 species of birds were recorded in the park, including the endangered gray goshawk . It is also a refuge for very unusual animals, such as the tusked frog .
Ferny Creek contains a wide range of microclimates and aspects, and as a result the flora is similar to that of the larger Dandenong Ranges as a whole. The Dandenong Ranges National park including Sherbrooke Forest, contains large areas of native vegetation and is dominated by a mix of wet and dry Sclerophyll forests. [3]
Bloomfield Lodge, formerly known as Peppers Bloomfield Lodge, is a boutique rainforest lodge set between the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is one of Australia ’s most exclusive retreats and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World and Drake & Cavendish .
The park's lush rainforests include one of the largest upland subtropical rainforest remnants in the world and the most northern Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforests in Australia. [15] The roots of the oldest Antarctic beech trees are over 5,000 years old. [9] [15] Around Mount Widgee numbers of Antarctic beech appear to be increasing. [4]
The tallest of the units, the Tarzan House, is built on top of a living mahogany tree, at the height of 22 m from the ground. The towers are interlinked by a wooden catwalk system of approximately 5 miles (8.0 km), all within the canopy of the rainforest. Other facilities within these tree tops include 2 swimming pools, two observation towers ...