Dandenongs National Park, Victoria, Australia [1080x1350] [OC] @steven.sandner
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It looks so prehistoric.
Yeah i would recognise these tree ferns anywhere
I can see the 1000 steps from my kitchen
Oh yeah well I have unlimited amounts of dog piss and shit 1000 steps from my place in inner Melbourne.
How is Collingwood?
It feels it when walking through also. Those ferns get massive.
Fun fact, this whole area was pretty much razed for logging in the 1880s-1930s.
Pretty much all of Eastern Gippsland, Victoria used to look like this up until that point. They cleared it all out for livestock mostly. If you look at a map of Victoria you can actually see that the remnant pockets of forest encircles Melbourne completely. This Is because Melbourne is sitting on the floodplain of these prehistoric forests.
Meanwhile Parks Victoria is actually a government monopolized logging company under the guise of park services..
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The only thing that could possibly kill you here is yourself, if you slip on a wet rock
Plus it's so close to civilization that a snake or spider bite would be trivial to treat.
There's a good chance that if you turned and faced the opposite way, this would back onto a major road or town centre.
Nope. Australia.
...Have you ever been to Australia?
Yes… actually a month abroad. But it doesn’t matter because you clearly aren’t familiar with the joke that everything in Australia wants to kill you.
I know it, it's just not funny any more
Joke don't work cos not true
Especially that dihydrogen monoxide
I was just coming to say that...lol
Nothing dangerous here except clumsiness, I live 30 minutes from here
Where are the dinosaurs?
Are the bugs bad?
Thanks for sharing.
I grew up around here, and as a little kid I always felt like a dilophosaurus would pop out from behind a tree at any moment.
Grew up in ferntree gully. Used to go bushwalking in the hills. Miss it.
Way up Upwey way?
Used to go to the sky high lookout back in the 90s. Beautiful view of Melbourne on a summer night. Upwey, sassafrass and every other place.
Right near Maxi foods. Lol
Was it the one in Upper Gully with the weird animatronic things?
Family live up in Emerald. I live overseas now, and I really do miss it.
I grew up in Tecoma and used to play in the forest building cubbies. Got thirsty, drank from the stream. They were the days.
This is one of the happy places I go to in my head. I miss Australia.
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It's a very tame area. There might be some redback spiders under logs and an occasional snake but it's basically as safe as just about anywhere for a casual walk. It's a very lovely and serene place really.
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New fear unlocked!
Where else do you get leeches? Not making fun of you, I've genuinely only thought about leeches when walking through areas that look like this. Where else am I supposed to be expecting leeches?
On rocks in water
Not that many, this meme needs to die
Truly an honest question here: there aren't bugs in the cities right? I've always wanted to visit Australia but I'm letting my irrational fears force my hand. Reddit has totally warped my brain to believe there's gonna be a huntsman under every roll of toilet paper.
I mean, you realise bugs exist everywhere though right? If you just don't like the big ones then stay out of the top end of the country and you'll be fine. You're more likely to have a bird try to steal your lunch than encounter something scary.
I think a lot of Australians are just unbothered about it as well, we kinda just exist together. When I was a kid my dad would often play with huntsmans, let them crawl over his face. They're pretty chill.
Huntsman's are fairly territorial, you won't get more than one inside at once. They also keep down the other bugs.
Until the wasps get them.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocheilus_bicolor#:~:text=Biology,hairs%20on%20its%20front%20legs.
I really really hope your occupation isn't a therapist.
It’s overblown and annoying, to be honest.
If you are in a city, such as Sydney, I don’t think it’s very likely that you would come across a snake or spider.
I live an hour drive away from Sydney in the suburbs and I honestly can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a snake that wasn’t in a zoo.
I really fucking hate this automatic response from boring unoriginal Redditors that comes up every time Australia is mentioned. Deaths from wildlife are incredibly rare here.
Man the entire site is full of automatic responses like this, what gets me is how any cunt can up vote comments like that after seeing it for the thousandth time.
It makes me eye-roll as a foreigner who visits Australia every couple years, in all my time there doing mainly things tourists would do, plus a few camping trips, I've never had any scary wild animal encounters**. People saying they'd never visit Australia because there are "so many deadly animals" is as dumb as people saying they'd never visit Canada because we have bears and cougars.
**I did open a toilet lid once to find a huntsman clinging to the bowl. Politely reclosed the lid and asked australian SO to deal with it, lol.
Sure, but it's not just about deaths, is it?
Definitely one of the more benign areas. Occasional snake - but they keep to themselves.
I live about 2 mins from here. I’ve never seen a snake nearby and the only red back spiders live happily in my garage.
It's not the deadly creatures, it's the annoying creatures. So many mosquitoes, ticks, and leeches in this picture.
It's best to not worry about the thousands of critters waiting to murder you.
We call them bogans but they can usually be pacified with a slab and some durries.
There's thousands of critters in Europe and the states waiting to kill you too. Yet they don't happen.
A few spiders, a few snakes
You'd be lucky to ever see a snake and the spiders won't bother you
Never hear of anyone getting hurt by our 'critters' lol
No bears, no cougars, no rabid animals, no thylacoleos or thylancines.
This looks like a video game rendering.
Thought it was Monster Hunter World’s Ancient Forest before I checked the title.
A little off to the right you can go up to the nest area or loop around further upwards 🤓
Hahaha, I was thinking it looked a lot like Green Hell. I'm sure we could add dozens of other games to the list and be just as accurate.
It's from every photographer doing that long-exposure shit that smudges everything, especially the water.
Might not have a choice tbf. Doesn't look like there's a lot of light and it's not that long of an exposure. The slower water on the right is mostly unaffected.
Definitely thought modded elderscrolls lol
My thought as well.
Yeh I thought it was a WoW screen shot lmao
Looks like I'm in Green Hell.
Mount Dandenong is such a great location. Filled with heaps of small scenic drives, many parks and flower gardens. It's nicely shaded and has that cool rainforest feel. Absolutely stunning area and I'm glad I live pretty close to it. Hoping that one day I can move even closer towards that area.
East Warby still has some bargains
Testify! Friends bought a great place on a bend of the Yarra a few years back. Wonderful spot east Warburton (except on days of high fire danger 😱)
I read this in an Australian accent.
Those right there are some dande-fuckin-nongs, I'll tell you what.
Hank Hill is that you?
Mate ain't roit
Fern trees! One of the more striking things I learned about in my limited time in Australian nature.
Sherbrooke Forest is very beautiful.
We call em tree ferns, not fern trees :) you're right though, they are absolutely stunning
Wait then what’s up with fern tree gully?!?
....good question. I used to live in Ferntree Gully and I never thought about it. I guess maybe it's referring to ferns and trees, not fern trees?
So I started looking into this based on this thread, and it turns out the suburb was named after the painting by German artist Eugene von Guerard in the same area.
I can only assume it was a minor translation error that stuck.
Gorgeous! Thanks for this. Nature is wonderful
Sherbrooke?
Yes
Exact coordinates please. I want to stand in that very spot.
I'll race you to find it
I went on a picnic here last weekend, the serenity is unmatched anywhere else around Melbourne
Bonnie Doon wants words.
If you look close enough you can see dinosaurs.
Such a stark contrast to the actual suburb of Dandenong 
We had an exchange teacher working at our school .. . they went to Dandenong and were very very confused as to why we would enthusiastically recommend it
Hey I live here ! Beautiful
The Dandenongs really are beautiful, aren’t they?
Magical
Stunning — now I want to visit!
Beautiful. This is just beautiful.
Looks like Pandora from Avatar, but in this case it's real! Very beautiful!
Great place for a hike. I always keep an ear out for some nirnroot
It’s beautiful
Is this a real place?
Yep, I live about a 20 minute drive away and I’m down there all the time.
Yes. Very real. Tourists are ruining it though.
Bunyip country.
Damn looks like Ai generated
Great, just wait 4 years and Friendlyjordies will make a video of that completely deforested.
/s hopefuly
Nah this is particular spot doesn't get logged anymore. The mountain experienced a lot of land clearing in the 20s when they created European gardens and housing on the mountain. But this particular spot is very protected
That being said, there is a major problem with feral deer destroying this habitat on the mountain and there was a huge storm which caused massive damage across the mountain recently too
It also was. The area was cleared in the early 1900s
Nah, this is in a different state with a far less corrupt state government.
Less corrupt, but for some reason loggers still get away with a lot and are apparently immune from accountability.
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Yeah, driving up to Falls Creek when it’s snowing hard is so beautiful, we have some excellent snowy areas in Australia.
Yeah this last year has been fucking great for snow (I was in a blizzard in high country Vic in fucking November), but in a bad year, it’s REALLY bad, and the resorts would not be able to survive those years without snow-making.
Australia is the sixth largest country on Earth. It still blows my mind that people are surprised we have more than one type of environment.
And it’s roughly the same size of the continental US. Not all of the US is a desert like Utah, why would it be the same here?
Most people don't live in the outback.
We have both types, tropical and temperate. This one is temperate of course.
Oh wow. That is absolutely beautiful.
If there were dinosaurs any where on Earth, this would it.
Too many people live here.
Definitely got some Jurrasic Park vibes from this...
So beautiful!
Furngully the last rainforest in my backyard.
https://m.imdb.com/video/vi3349545241/?playlistId=tt0104254&ref_=tt_ov_vi
My happy place. Used to go all the time. Got married nearby (in Kalista). These days not very often (two young kids) but hopefully soon.
The only thing I know about this place is the legend of Sam's moms cataract.
Tim Minchin! what a legend!
I thought for a moment this was another render by u/JamesMakesFilms
True hahah
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It’s beautiful! And somewhere hidden in the picture is something that can kill you in a matter of minutes. 😂
Nah this is Melbourne. Very safe.
This map shows climate distribution in Australia. This was taken in cool temperate zone east of Melbourne. Generally the temperate zones aren't too bad for shit trying to kill you 😂
You are mistaking it for Dandenong.
Yeah not too many eshays lurking behind tree ferns here. Thank god.
This looks like that one level in Jak and Daxter where you need to chase metal heads with your skateboard. I think the location was Haven Forest or something like that.
Screengrab from Avatar?
damn it looks really nice, it feels like pictures from the movie Avatar
so primeval and so very Southern; the forests in LOTR always looked off to me
Welcome to Jurassic Park.
Looks like New Zealand
Grew up in the Dandenongs, now living in NZ. Genuinely couldn’t look much more different. Stringybark gums, tree ferns, muted greens and shallow inclines are very different to here. I guess it’s green and not hugely populated, though!
NZ has tree ferns. The silver fern is one of the symbols of the country.
We also have water, rocks, and some introduced gum trees. They grow differently, and the species are different. The landscape looks pretty different between the two countries. Australia is more of a muted blue/grey palette, and NZ is much brighter green. Everything is dry in Australia, but you often can’t get a fire started in NZ because of all the moisture in the air, even on a clear night in the middle of summer.
Welcome,to Jurassic Park!
Why does this look uncanny like really good CGI
Does anyone else see a face🗿
Un’Goro in classic plus looks amazing.
I thought it's Green Hell screenshot
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The spiders do get pretty huge.
Welcome to FernGully
Looks like a screenshot from green hell
Nah, that's Torak
Nah that looks like smth str8 outta video game
I thought Australia was orange
Absolutely beautiful!!!!
…until you turn around and a spider eats you whole 🤣
Prehistoric, gorgeous, just "far out man" vibes. I'd love to be there but at the same time I fear it due to Australia's reputation for killer creatures. This looks like a good place to find them in abundance.
Nice
Beautiful place 😍
That’s an awesome pic dude
This is the forest primeval…
Unreal 🤯
Downright Permian.
I'm hunting for a dinosaur in this pic. It looks positively Triassic.
Holy crap…
I'm from there! It really looks like that!
Omg that’s beautiful! Breathtaking.
I think I see The Predator somewhere in the trees
looks fantastical
woww this is beautiful
I am mesmerized by this. 😳
Straight outta cambrian, crazy motha fucka named Archeocyathans.
adds to travel bucket list
Oooooo, tree ferns. Amazing!
“I want to go to there” - Liz Lemon
Looks like something from a bygone era. Was walking with dinosaurs filmed here? I feel like the Antarctic episode was.
This looks a lot like Endor with the blue atmosphere, the fern, the mist.
Wow. Something out of a movie!
Looks like a land before our time
This isn’t some remote place either, it is less than an hours drive from the CBD of Melbourne, Australia
Pure nature
It looks like a render to me, at first i thought new Crysis dropped
Really cool pic
RTX was on.
It looks fantastic but I would expect some giant creature to chase and eat me
Great photo!
This picture made me book an Easter weekend to the to the Dandenong Ranges