Little Stalky and Mystical Roo go to the Rainforest

I must say we do live in a beautiful area of Australia and have so much right here on our doorstep.  On Sunday Mystical Roo took me to the rain forest, which is about a 5 minute drive down the road.  It's amazing that we can travel such a short distance and find ourselves immersed in the rain forest.  The trail takes you deep into the bushland, over bridges that overlook the river and up towards a waterfall that sits at the end of the walk.  It's truly breathtaking.  And literally breathtaking.  I'm a bit fitter now than I was the last time we did the walk - all that walking to work I guess - and was able to make my way up the hills without crumpling into a panting heap.  I did consider asking for a piggy back at one point but that was more because I thought it would be fun.  Who doesn't love a piggy back!  We bumped into a few other walkers but it was quiet that day and very tranquil.  We reached the waterfall and there was hardly anyone else about.  The last time we came we saw a python doing a python dance on one of the rocks in front of the falls but this time he wasn't there.  We did however, see a headless possum, which was certainly not as cool.  Poor little dude was just lying underneath a bench.  At first I thought it was a really big mouse or something and then I realised it was a possum.  Without it's head.  The strange thing was there was no blood or gore or anything.  It was just a body without a head.  Mystical Roo and I decided it was a kind of possum cold case.  How had this possum died?  Why had something taken the head but not the body?  We decided that something bigger might have come along and scared away the thing that had killed the possum, but then why didn't that bigger thing take the possum for itself.  A possum mystery.  On a less morbid note we did see a couple of lyre birds, which are much bigger than I remember.  They walk in a kind of shifty way that make them look suspicious before digging amongst the dirt.  One of them scared the hell out of me by suddenly appearing from out of the bush and running off.  Made me jump!  We also saw a monster spider sitting on a rock that looked suspiciously like a funnel web.  Oh yes a funnel web - only one of the most deadly spiders in the world!  Mystical Roo did what any normal person would do and got his camera out to photograph the beast.  Don't worry though, Mystical Roo and Little Stalky were a great distance away from the potentially deadly spider.  The camera just has an excellent zoom.  When we got back to the gift shop we did some investigating and concluded the spider was actually a nurse web spider and not a funnel web at all.  Deadly to it's fellow insects but not to humans.  Well that was a relief!