In the heart of the island is a large nature reserve with three reservoirs. Yesterday, with french mum Sylvie and her 10 month old, we set out to explore the Macritchie reservoir - it's about 100ha of pristine rainforest. It's an area very popular with joggers and walkers.
It was beautiful - an enormous 'lake' with a 4km raised boardwalk on the edge of the reservoir and walks through the jungle. It's an 11km walk to circumnavigate the reservoir. At one end of the reservoir is a 'tree-top walk' where you walk on a suspended boardwalk 4 kms long, and 25 metres above the ground. This Zoe, Craig and I are going to tackle on sunday.
It was a beautiful walk - we managed about 5kms (there and back) with Eloue in the stroller. It was so peaceful and calm. We came across a group of monkey's who had stolen a pack of chips from a silly girl who didn't read the signs and brought food into the park. There would have been about 15 monkeys (I've since found out they were long tailed macaques). We got SO close to them about 3 feet away - it was great. They were so human like in the way they ate, and they sat in a row, one in front of the other and groomed each other. It was a unique experience.
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