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Child’s play. Ali McDonald plays hide-and-seek around a tree that is thought to be more than 500 years old, in Barmah Lake campg ...

82 Australian Geographic The twisted river red gums that rise up around us are a recurring feature of the Australian landscape: ...

Taking stock. Environmental manager Rick Webster sometimes requests water flows from Hume Dam, which will inten- tionally drown ...

84 Australian Geographic none can grow into the carbuncled, grandfatherly proportions of the mature trees. Instead, they’re cond ...

July–August 2015 85 BARMAH-MILLEWA FOREST REGION ECHUCA AND MOAMA Established in 1854, Echuca soon became one of Australia’s bus ...

Water hazards. Dead river red gum boughs can fall without warning with deadly results, earning these trees the name ‘widow maker ...

Use the viewa app to scan this page and watch a fi lm about the Barmah- Millewa Forest. ...

(^1) Musk lorikeets Glossopsitta concinna Collecting pollen and nectar from red gum flowers using their specialised brush-tipped ...

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90 Australian Geographic Hollowed-out trunks and branches are perfect nesting sites for wildlife. Former timber-getter Lee McCan ...

River stalwart. Kevin Hutchinson, the Port of Echuca’s senior shipwright. He has been steaming and bending red gum planks around ...

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93 AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SUPPORTED AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SUPPORTED AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SUPPORTED CROSS ...

94 Australian Geographic AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SUPPORTED I ’M AT AN ALTITUDE of 28,000ft, above the North Rim of the Gra ...

July–August 2015 95 Careful planning. Glenn (far left) gives American wingsuit pilot Roger Hugelshofer some help marking the lan ...

96 Australian Geographic W E TRAVELLED TO a specialist high-altitude sky- diving drop zone in Davis, California, for our practic ...

July–August 2015 97 On the way back to the car, Bennett pointed out wildflowers and explained their medicinal uses. We saw a ‘wi ...

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July–August 2015 99 OU T BACK TR AVEL & DESTINATIONS, YOUR SOCIETY, YOUR AG FEARGUS COONEY/GETTY 130 A DAY AT THE R ACES The ...

R I DING Story and Photogr aphy by Amy Russell Running free. Riders traverse Hollands Knob, along the flourishing meadows of the ...