Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Weekend away
After the game we headed up to Twin Waters to stay overniht; acting as a halfway house to a planned walk in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
It was OK; but I do find hotel accommodation inevitably stifling. Regimented regimes, too many people doing stuff for you etc. Still, managed to leave the kids in the hotel room when we headed out for a beer. James was confident that he could use the telephone.
Also went to Underwater World in Mooloolaba. It was impressive as far as 'underwater worlds' go, but to be honest, I am a bit over this kind of thing; having experienced the real thing every Friday when living in Jeddah on the Red Sea, I am quite keen to go and re-live that experience on the Great Barrier Reef this September,
Sunday morning we headed west up and over the Blackall Range (including a hairy drive down a winding, single lane dirt track, clinging to the side of a mountain; my knuckles weer white by the time we got to the bottom) and down into the Mary River Valley. The unnamed mountain (for the sake of argument called Mount Gheerulla by the “Sunshine Coast Peak Baggers Guide” is approx 80km inland at Kenilworth.
Unfortunately, after all the effort and the expense getting here, the walking was pretty ordinary. I originally marked this one up out of the photocopied Peak Bagger’s Guide, as it offered a range of experiences, from walking to scrambling up gorges to navigating through forest at the top of the mountain.
Since the Peak Bagger’s publication, the mountain now forms part of a major circuit route and a well-formed path has been cut up to the top. In addition, I had given away, lost, subsequently found, spilt coffee over and finally thrown out, the photocopied map, so we set out only with a few vague memories from reading. Therefore, it proved impossible to identify the original route described by the book and we had to make do with the track.
The scenery was pleasant enough – dry scherolpyll forest and stands of grass trees – but it lacked any magnificent features such as waterfall, gorge or cliffs to signify it as a ‘great walk’. Despite that, there was a decent view from the top, taking in the nearby Conondale and Blackall Ranges, but you could also see a sand blow in Great Sandy National Park on the Cooloola Coast, north of Noosa.
Had a late lunch next to the Mary River, then headed home for 4pm.
Weekend away
Posted by Living with Matilda at 7:58 PM
After the game we headed up to Twin Waters to stay overniht; acting as a halfway house to a planned walk in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
It was OK; but I do find hotel accommodation inevitably stifling. Regimented regimes, too many people doing stuff for you etc. Still, managed to leave the kids in the hotel room when we headed out for a beer. James was confident that he could use the telephone.
Also went to Underwater World in Mooloolaba. It was impressive as far as 'underwater worlds' go, but to be honest, I am a bit over this kind of thing; having experienced the real thing every Friday when living in Jeddah on the Red Sea, I am quite keen to go and re-live that experience on the Great Barrier Reef this September,
Sunday morning we headed west up and over the Blackall Range (including a hairy drive down a winding, single lane dirt track, clinging to the side of a mountain; my knuckles weer white by the time we got to the bottom) and down into the Mary River Valley. The unnamed mountain (for the sake of argument called Mount Gheerulla by the “Sunshine Coast Peak Baggers Guide” is approx 80km inland at Kenilworth.
Unfortunately, after all the effort and the expense getting here, the walking was pretty ordinary. I originally marked this one up out of the photocopied Peak Bagger’s Guide, as it offered a range of experiences, from walking to scrambling up gorges to navigating through forest at the top of the mountain.
Since the Peak Bagger’s publication, the mountain now forms part of a major circuit route and a well-formed path has been cut up to the top. In addition, I had given away, lost, subsequently found, spilt coffee over and finally thrown out, the photocopied map, so we set out only with a few vague memories from reading. Therefore, it proved impossible to identify the original route described by the book and we had to make do with the track.
The scenery was pleasant enough – dry scherolpyll forest and stands of grass trees – but it lacked any magnificent features such as waterfall, gorge or cliffs to signify it as a ‘great walk’. Despite that, there was a decent view from the top, taking in the nearby Conondale and Blackall Ranges, but you could also see a sand blow in Great Sandy National Park on the Cooloola Coast, north of Noosa.
Had a late lunch next to the Mary River, then headed home for 4pm.
- Teaching the next Matt Gitteau how to kick
- Extinct sharks jaws
- Rare siting of Aussie wildlife
- Grass tree, close-up
- Typical terrain at Mount Gheerulla
- Pine River esturary
Posted by Living with Matilda at 7:58 PM
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