Gidjuum Gulganyi Info Pack for Shuttle Bus Service

Some important information about your Gidjuum Gulganyi Shuttle. Including: pick up points, where to park, timetable, trail tips.

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Byron Bay: Australia: The Time Travellers Guide

ABC Series We love this landmark ABC series, which chronicles the history of planet and how it relates to Australia. Of all continents on Earth, none preserve the story of the formation of our planet and the evolution of life quite like Australia. Nowhere else can you simply jump in a car and travel back through the entire history of the world. 'Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide' takes you on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today.

Byron Wildlife: Mammals

As with the plants, the Byron rainforests, eucalypt forests,heathlands, wetlands, creeks, rivers, coastal and estuary habitats possess incredibly ancient animals found only in Australia. Monotremes are the oldest mammals on the planet, and Australia. The majority of Australias mammals are marsupials.

Glow Worms

The glow-worm, a stealthy carnivorous prehistoric insect, was lurking in that rainforest and lived by imitating the Milky Way galaxy around which our planet and solar system spirals.

The Majesty of the Rainforest

The thick layer of tree top branches and interlacing vines of the rainforest creates a canopy, which the sunlight can hardly penetrate, thirty to fifty metres above the ground.

Battle of the Forests

While Australia was still close to Antarctica the continent was dominated by rainforest and the eucalypt forests grew only in those places that were drier and less fertile. As the continent drifted further north away from the rain-laden winds of the Southern Ocean and approached southern Asia dry conditions prevailed and around 13 million years ago the centre of the continent began to dry out.

Subtropical Rainforest

The surface of the lava that created the landscapes of Byron Bay and much of the rest of north-eastern New South Wales weathered over 20million years into the rich red basalt soils that now cover much of the scenery. These fertile, well-drained soils formed the perfect habitat for subtropical rainforest that once covered much of Australia.

Geological Features of Byron Bay and the Great Tweed Volcano, Australia On The Move

One hundred million years ago Australia was a part of the super continent of Gondwana. This included South America, Africa, and India. Along with dinosaurs, the ancestors of most of the plants and animals that presently inhabit Australia were distributed across that ancient land mass. South America, Africa and India broke away from Gondwana and were dragged north leaving Australia still connected to Antarctica.