Last weekend I was up for a rate treat as a friend from back home came to visit me. My high school friend Christian and his friend, also called Christian, are doing a road trip along the east coast of Australia and they dropped by along the way. The guys were up for a visit to the nearby national park, so we took them to Springbrook. This is a gorgeous place in the Gold Coast hinterland, with waterfalls, nature walks and beautiful lookout points.
One of the lookouts is called the Best of all lookout, but on the day we visited the view was definitely not the best.
It is a beautiful spot, but on the day we visited the weather was overcast and foggy, so this is all we saw.
But there were plenty of other lookouts and the view from those were much better.
I came to this very same lookout a couple of years ago and got a much better view then.
It's a great place to come, especially on hot summer days, because the weather is always a few degrees cooler than down on the Gold Coast.
We also did a detour and visited Natural Bridge, yes another waterfall. But at the bottom there is a cave that is home to a colony of glow worms. This is a popular place to visit for Australian as well as overseas visitors.
The cave is also home to a large number of bats, all of which where on the move right when we were about to get into the cave! Scary.
I really enjoyed getting out of town and just enjoy the forest, listening tor the birds chirping, or whatever it is that makes all that rainforest sound… The excursion was part of a great weekend that ended all too soon!
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