Noah Creek Valley

Reflections Noah Creek

Mossy Boulders Noah Creek

Botanists Read the Ancient Landscape

Ribbonwood or Idoit Fruit in Flower

Scenes like these represented the first flowers to colour the earths rainforest canopies. This Idiospermum australiense represents one of Australia's oldest continually growing flowering plant.

Waterfalls Noah Creek

Reflections Noah Creek

Megahertzia amplexicaulis

This member of the Proteaceae family grows in the Noah Valley and the Thornton Range and nowhere else on earth.

Eroded Granite Noah Valley

Rock and water - Noah Creek

110 millions years of isolation and avoidance of any sea level rise, mountain building, glaciation and volcanism has created conditions to preserve the world's largest collections of primitive, relict and ancient flowering (angiosperm) plant pedigrees more than anywhere else on the planet making the Congo and Amazon rainforest look like recent events.

Deep in Noah Valley

Noah Creek Estuary

Metaphorically, you are looking into the port hole of a 'botanical ark'. This ancient landscape has remained here relatively unchanged for well over 120 million years. While other parts of Australia changed due to rising seas levels, mountain building episodes, volcanic activity and naturally occurring climate change, this valley and the ones around it have been a cradle for flowering plants that haven't had to evolve very much to stay current in the landscape of these valleys.