The narrow path leads through a forest with gorges, suspension bridges and man-high ferns. Bird calls come from the canopy of leaves, and a brook babbles on the ground. A group of children hike into the Minnamurra Rainforest. In this pristine nature they will experience how wild the forests on Australia's southeast coast once looked, even before colonization in the second half of the 18th century. In the time before that, the jungle stretched to the border of today's state of Victoria.

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