After spending 2 months in Brisbane it was the time to go exploring Australia and to take some pics too. So we decided to pack the car - this itself took a half day - and drive somewhere not far from Brisbane for 3 days. Well, to say "exploring Australia" sounds too much... cause the country is huuuuuuuuuuuuge and we could maybe see 1/10000000 of this. But still, that's better than nothing.
We picked out a place called Mount Warning Nation Park which is located in another state, New South Wales in south and it takes about 1.5 hours to drive there from Brisbane. Reached there, and started to put up our tent, later we lighted a fire and cooked a dinner. The dinner under the stars was perfect and it was warm winter night, somewhere around 12 degrees at night.
On Friday, 24th of July, after having a breakfast we started climbing Mount Warning. It is the second largest shield volcano in the world, 1157m above sea level. It was named by Captain James Cook - as almost every noteworthy spot in Australia :) - in 1770 on his voyage of discovery as a warning to seafarers of the dangerous coastal reefs. They say that if you climbed early for sunrise you would have been the first to see the sun shine on the Australian mainland. Well, we were not that early there and couldn't enjoy the sunrise, but were lucky enough to climb up later and have absolutely stunning view as the weather was so clear that day. Climbing up itself took about 2 hours and was pretty tough, but the very ending part was harder than i had thought. The last 150 metres were almost vertical steep rocks, and really nothing less, where we just had to pull ourselves up on a steel chain. It was all right for us, but made me amaze how could kids, 5 or 6 years old, get up there??
Once up the mountain, it was time to start coming down and this turned up to be hard! My feet were shaking and oh, what a relief it was to see the car park soon! The sleep at that night was sweater than i had ever felt.
On Saturday, 25/07 we packed our stuff and went on driving towards the south. Soon we reached a funny village called Nimbin where many people from Sydney and the other cities used to gather together to live hippie life. The village still looks the same and so do the people.
While driving around i had much fun reading place names and i'll give some good examples here: Gundurimba, Murwillumbah, Mullumbimby, Mooloolaba :) :) :) I hope you understood what i was just saying in aboriginal language.
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