On Sunday, I visited the Glass House Mountains, which are about 2 hours by train north of Brisbane.
To put this trip in context, you have to understand that for the past 2 weeks, the weather forecasts had been predicting rain every day. For the most part, during the week, it barely rained at all, but by Friday, it always rained enough to make you think that the whole weekend was going to miserable. Of course, by the time that I realized that a day was perfectly gorgeous, it was too late to plan and travel to wherever I would rather be.
So this Sunday, I decided that rain be damned, I had to get out to the Glass House Mountains since I was going to be away for the remaining few weekends. The sky alternated between threatening and cloudless, but it turned out to be a beautiful day nonetheless.
The Glass House Mountains were named as such by Captain James Cook because they reminded him of his childhood in England, where his mum would say: "Throw not stones in glass houses less they become picturesque volcanic remnants in eastern Australia."
So this Sunday, I decided that rain be damned, I had to get out to the Glass House Mountains since I was going to be away for the remaining few weekends. The sky alternated between threatening and cloudless, but it turned out to be a beautiful day nonetheless.
Mt. Tibrogargan & the Glass House Band, seen from Mt. NungunThe Glass House Mountains were named as such by Captain James Cook because they reminded him of his childhood in England, where his mum would say: "Throw not stones in glass houses less they become picturesque volcanic remnants in eastern Australia."
The Glass House Mountains are a popular hike in the Brisbane area and are well known for their rock-climbing. Not rock-climbing as in ropes and stuff. People actually climb up the fairly steep rocky faces of Mt. Tibrogargan with no safety gear at all.
I didn't want to get stuck on the side of a mountain by myself in the middle of a potential downpour, so I chose to hike the easiest of the mountains, Mt. Nungun.
Mt. TibrogarganI didn't want to get stuck on the side of a mountain by myself in the middle of a potential downpour, so I chose to hike the easiest of the mountains, Mt. Nungun.
Mt. Nungun trailheadThere was no real rock-climbing on Nungun, but it still got pretty steep.
These people don't know I'm using them for scale
They're trying to escape through the underbrushThe good part about hiking up a less interesting mountain is that you have a good vantage point for the cool ones.
Mt. Coonowrin & Mt. Beerwah from the Mt. Nungun SummitAfter making it down Mt. Nungun and still not getting rained on, I decided to hike down the road to get a better look at the pillar-esque but off-limits Mt. Coonowrin.
Mt. Coonowrin
Mt. Coonowrin & Mt. Beerwah
Cows for ClaraOn the way back from Mt. Coonowrin, it finally began raining in the distance, but that made for some nice scenery.
Rainbow over Mt. NungunI managed to make it home weathering only a light sprinkle and with the satisfaction of a weekend in Australia not gone to waste.
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