2022—View from the Room

What a view to come home to! At O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, my room faced west overlooking the vast Lamington National Park. Late most afternoons, we took a break from photographing the birds of Australia and returned to our rooms before heading over to O’Reilly’s Rainforest Bar to try, for example, their signature Black & Yellow Tie, an intoxicating (literally) concoction of Bourbon, Amaretto, Fresh Lime, O’Reilly’s Big Pete Port and amazingly, Aquafaba (the liquid from cooked garbanzos) or some other cocktail. On this day, however, I took a bit longer before meeting up at the bar because the view was so stunning with the sun hiding behind the storm clouds and spreading godbeams across the distant hills that I took time to photograph the view.