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great sandy national park and surrounds

Post author By megan
Post date 18.6.2007
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Wandering around the mainland section of Great Sandy National Park and surrounds, below Fraser Island.

Boat at Tin Can Bay

Rainbow Beach

Dawn at Great Sandy National Park (mainland)

Lake Cootharaba, Great Sandy National Park

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albert river circuit

The overnight hike of the trip – the Albert River Circuit in Lamington National Park, from Green Mountain out to Echo Point and back.

Albert River was that way apparently. We followed the arrow, the sign seemed to know what it was talking about.

The walk goes past many waterfalls. Thanks to the drought (Brisbane is in Stage 5 water restrictions) most of them were not particularly vigorous about the whole falling thing. Trickle would have been more accurate.

The view from Echo Point, from the Lamington National Park up in Queensland, down to the hills of New South Wales. None of the photos could do it justice. Here Mt Warning is visible in the light of the setting sun – it was first to be lit up by the sunrise as well. To the left of it the Cape Byron lighthouse could be seen at night, and to the far left the Gold Coast was visible. And in the valley below us – lots of tiny little moving dots that were possibly cattle.

Our little dark rainforest campground, just by Echo Point

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excerpts from lamington national park

Post author By megan
Post date 15.6.2007
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Lamington NP has its fair share of brush turkeys (who stole our dinner carrot), and pademelons (shy, small, fat, round, furry hoppy things). There were also hoards of other birds; robins, finches, lorikeets, pigeons, bowerbirds, cockatoos. And the alpacas I met on the way in.

Here are Henry the Alpaca, and some of the fighting rosellas near the main tourist centre in the Green Mountain section.

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byron bay – the lighthouse

Post author By megan
Post date 14.6.2007
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The Cape Byron lighthouse. From these photos you’d almost think it wasn’t thronged with tourists. Situated on the most easterly point of the Australian mainland, it’s also Australia’s most powerful lighthouse (which I would concur with, after seeing it beaming up to the Queensland border from the lookout at Echo Point in Lamington NP).