Platypus Hole exceeds Expectations!
We stayed here for 2 nights so that we could explore lamington national park, we are big nature lovers and were very keen to go animal spotting up there. Of course platypus hole sounded enticing but we had it in the back of our minds that there was a probably a good chance we wouldn’t be lucky enough to see a platypus at our campsite. Oh how we were wrong! After setting up the tent and getting the fire going, we sat at the edge of the creek going on about how cool it would be if we saw a wild platypus. A few seconds later there it was! It was swimming about and hunting a few metres out. It hung around for hours that afternoon, we even saw a second make an appearance. We were all pretty happy with ourselves for choosing this place.
Not only the platypus, but if you’re into birds this is the site. The trees at the campsite were full of bird life, we spotted superb fairywrens, many different kinds of honey eaters, red browed firetails, yellow robins, golden whistler, rose robins, brown cuckoo doves, azure kingfishers diving in the creek and many more- without even much effort. We saw more variety of birds at the site than in the national park!
Not to mention the beautiful cattle in the paddock and their little calves.
Platypus hole was an amazing experience, perfect if you’re an animal lover and want a little bit of a more private site to relax.
Thank you for having us!