There are plenty of giant strangler figs and basket ferns along the way, and at one point the track takes you through the aerial roots of a monstrous fig tree. Huge. If you really take your time in the right spots there’s always the chance you’ll spot one of the brilliantly-blue Ulysses butterflies (I didn’t, but they’re apparently there).

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The track bottoms out as it crosses a creek, and I wasn’t looking forward to the ascent - not so much from the physical exertion viewpoint, just the number of steps I suspected lay in wait.

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