D'Aguilar National Park


D'Aguilar is a national park in Queensland, Australia. It contains the D'Aguilar Range and is located along the northwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area. The park is traversed by the winding scenic Mount Nebo Road and Mount Glorious Road.
The park contains eucalyptus woodlands, sheltered pockets of tropical rainforest, a number of crevasses and views of Moreton Bay and the Glass House Mountains. The Walkabout Creek Visitor Centre is located at the edge of the park. There are two formal, vehicle accessible camping areas in the Mount Mee section and eight remote bush camping sites in the southern D'Aguilar section. Popular lookouts include Jolly's Lookout, Westridge Outlook, Camp Mountain Lookout and Wivenhoe Lookout, overlooking Lake Wivenhoe. The villages of Mount Nebo and Mount Glorious are located on Mount Nebo Road on the edges of the national park and are popular stops for tourists driving through the park.
The southern part of the park was formerly known as Brisbane Forest Park, while the northern part of the park is at Mount Mee.

Flora

Woodlands and dry eucalypt forests predominate on the drier, shallower soils of the park's foothills. Spotted Gum and Narrow-leaved Ironbark are two of the main species. There are also small areas of heath and ridges dominated by grass trees. Remnant pockets of lowland rainforest occur in the valleys along some of the watercourses.
At higher altitudes the forests become more complex due to the increased rainfall and generally deeper soils. These mid-altitude forests are dominated by Grey Gum, Pink Bloodwood and Brush Box. Occasional rainforest species are also present and there is a thick understorey of ferns, vines and shrubs.
Moist sub-tropical rainforest grows on the highest parts of the range where the rainfall is two-thirds greater than in the foothills, particularly on the rich basaltic soils north of Mt Glorious. Huge strangler figs can be seen emerging through the canopy.

Fauna

More than 240 species of birds have been recorded in the park, including the noisy pitta, southern logrunner, paradise riflebird, regent bowerbird, satin bowerbird, brush-turkey, laughing kookaburra, pied currawong, red goshawk, marbled frogmouth, bush-hen, black-breasted button quail, white-bellied sea eagle, comb-crested jacana and cotton pygmy goose.
66 mammal species have been recorded in the park, including the echidna, platypus, red-necked pademelon, short-eared possum, common ringtail possum, northern brown bandicoot, long-nosed bandicoot, Long-nosed potoroo, insectivorous bats, fruit bats , several species of gliding possums and small numbers of koalas and kangaroos.
There are a variety of reptile species in the park. This includes the tree goanna/lace monitor, which is a large monitor lizard and the land mullet, which is a large, shiny black skink. 26 species of frogs have been recorded in the park, including the great barred frog. The most common amphibian in the park is an introduced pest, the cane toad.