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  "text": "We had planned to go to Barren Grounds. It was more of a plan than I'm used to in that the night before we looked at each other, decided where we would go and I made a note to pack some crackers, cheese and hummus and because I was feeling fancy, some gherkins.\n\nI'm not great at following through with plans. I need options and having a definite plan, by its very nature, takes away other options. I'm also not great at spontaneity because I like having plans. It's annoying as it sounds.\n\nBut we got in the car, my husband unexpectedly free mid-week and we wanted to explore and hopefully uncover an echidna or two. \n\nSomewhere though, between home and the reserve, our plans changed. Or rather my plans changed and it wasn't 'somewhere' it was right at the turn off to Minnamurra Rainforest where I saw the sign saying 'Minnamurra Rainforest' and yanked the wheel to the right. Plans, schmans.\n\nWe have lyrebirds across the road, popping up occasionally in the cool, dark gully. Some years they dig at the side of the road, sometimes we don't see them at all. One special year a particularly bold individual wanting all the grubby goodness that was living in our abandoned mulch pile, did a mad dash across our garage roof. But it's been a while since I've seen one close and that's what, it turned out, I was after.\n\nIf you've been to Minnamurra Rainforest you'll be familiar with the thrill of the lanky birds running up and across the boardwalk in front of you. Or sneaking up on one scratching for worms. \n\nWe had to walk a long way, at such an angle that we were bent at the waist, looking like mimes pushing against an invisible wind, before we spotted one. \n\nIt was lovely and special but it didn't scratch that itch - I wanted to see a mature male and his beautiful lyre-shaped tail. And so we continued to walk. Up, up, up and then back down, weaving in and out of various paths, heading into the centre for a drink and back out again. Until, right near the entrance to the trail 3 birds dashed over the river, navigating the lichen embossed boulders and into the damp of the rainforest.\n\nAnd there they stood. Not for long, and always partially hidden by trees but there it was, that magnificent tail and the cool eye of the lyrebird watching me back.\n\nSuperb Lyrebird\nMinnamurra Rainforest",
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