Name | Date | Difficulty | Distance/Duration | |
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Mt Cotton (South East Queensland) |
1 Nov, 2020 |
Medium |
3.5km return 75 mins |
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Nice walk, considering it's mainly just a fire trail. Surprised at the top was quite a nice grassed area, a few benched and a couple picnic tables too, with a great view towards the north east towards Moretan Bay and the surrounding areas. | ||||
Natural Bridge (Springbrook National Park) |
31 Oct, 2020 |
Very Easy |
1km return 30 mins |
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Definitely one of the most popular if not the most popular walk on the Gold Coast. Or at least the busiest, luckily the car park is huge even some bus spots. Every 200m there is almost some scenic to look at, if that by a wonderful old tree, the creek or the actual waterfall. Just got to get in early before the masses of people come. | ||||
Bushrangers Cave (Springbrook National Park) |
31 Oct, 2020 |
Medium |
4.2km return 2 hrs |
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Amazed to say the least. Other then the long grass (I'd recommend some long pants), the start of the track is nice and open walking from the bottom of the valley up, having nice view of the surround moutains. A little of bush and then Bam you hit the caves. Took around 5 min to walk along the whole caves/wall. | ||||
Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens (South East Queensland) |
10 Oct, 2020 |
Easy |
1km return 1 hr |
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You can easily spend an hour walking around in these wonderful well maintained gardens. | ||||
Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens (South East Queensland) |
10 Oct, 2020 |
Easy |
1km return 1 hr |
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You can easily spend an hour walking around in these wonderful well maintained gardens. | ||||
Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens (South East Queensland) |
10 Oct, 2020 |
Easy |
1km return 1 hr |
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You can easily spend an hour walking around in these wonderful well maintained gardens. | ||||
Palm Grove Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
5 Oct, 2020 |
Easy |
2.7km return 1 hr |
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Nice short loop through the tambourine rainforest. Although I only saw one kookaburra. I definitely heard at least 5 different other types of birds. The bird sounds were magical. |
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Jenyns Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
5 Oct, 2020 |
Easy |
4.3km return 105 mins |
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Nice walk through a diverse rainforest, was quite amazed when it just randomly changed to eucalypt trees. Some water was flowing around the creeks near Jenyns falls, but didn't see the waterfall itself. | ||||
Pages Pinnacle (South East Queensland) |
3 Oct, 2020 |
Hard |
6.7km return 2.5 hrs |
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Would do again, just such great views. Managed to walk all the way along the ridge to the end. you get almost a 270deg view of both the hinterland, Hinze dam and some of the coast too. View is just worth every bit of the hike. | ||||
Wishing Tree Track (Lamington National Park) |
2 Oct, 2020 |
Easy |
2.4km return 75 mins |
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Such a wonderful walk and since it's not off the border track it is much more quite then the other walks near by. You can easily make this a circuit and even not going all the way to the "wishing tree" there is still a few hidden gems before you reach it that it makes the whole track worth while. | ||||
Small Cave (Plunkett Conservation Park) (South East Queensland) |
27 Sep, 2020 |
Medium |
4km return 2 hrs |
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Nice walk, with a decent amount of elevation. Fun climbing around the rocks at the top. The cave is big enough to sit in and really nice and cool compared with the heat along the tack. | ||||
Pages Pinnacle (South East Queensland) |
29 Aug, 2020 |
Hard |
6.7km return 2.5 hrs |
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Really does go almost the entire way along the fire trail. If you miss the turn off the trail there is another tree that is marked 'PP' too. Since I didn't scramble all the way along the ridge I decided to follow along the fire trail a bit further to see if there were any other vantage points, but nothing great came of it. | ||||
Denham Falls walk (South East Queensland) |
29 Aug, 2020 |
Medium |
2.5km return 1 hr |
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Viewpoint was ok, now there is a sign saying don't trespass to go down to the bottom of the waterfall, which is quite sad judging by how nice it looks down there. You can still manage to go to the top of the falls which was fun following down creek till you reach the edge of the cliff. | ||||
MacDonald Rainforest Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
9 Aug, 2020 |
Easy |
1.2km return 1 hr |
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Nice short walk to take in the fresh rain forest air. Only bad thing is it looks like a recent storm has came through and knocked quite a few trees down onto the path. | ||||
Sandy Creek Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
1 Aug, 2020 |
Easy |
2.5km return 1 hr |
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Wonderful short walk. View is nice, You can see the waterfall from the view point, but it's no the greatest angle. Overall just the rainforest and bird life are great the way it is. The view from the park facilities I believe sees all the way out to Brisbane. | ||||
Sandy Creek Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
1 Aug, 2020 |
Easy |
2.5km return 1 hr |
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Wonderful short walk. View is nice, You can see the waterfall from the view point, but it's no the greatest angle. Overall just the rainforest and bird life are great the way it is. The view from the park facilities I believe sees all the way out to Brisbane. | ||||
Sandy Creek Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
1 Aug, 2020 |
Easy |
2.5km return 1 hr |
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Wonderful short walk. View is nice, You can see the waterfall from the view point, but it's no the greatest angle. Overall just the rainforest and bird life are great the way it is. The view from the park facilities I believe sees all the way out to Brisbane. | ||||
Sandy Creek Circuit (Tamborine National Park) |
1 Aug, 2020 |
Easy |
2.5km return 1 hr |
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Wonderful short walk. View is nice, You can see the waterfall from the view point, but it's no the greatest angle. Overall just the rainforest and bird life are great the way it is. The view from the park facilities I believe sees all the way out to Brisbane. | ||||
Cedar Creek Falls (Tamborine National Park) |
26 Jul, 2020 |
Easy |
1km return 30 mins |
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Cold rainy sunday day, and still quite a lot of people. Waterfall was great though after all the rain it's sure was gushing down. | ||||
Westray's Grave from Christmas Creek (Lamington National Park) |
12 Jul, 2020 |
Medium |
7.5km return 3.5 hrs |
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Definitely an adventurous hike following along the creek pretty much the entire way. Definitely some nice spots for some creek photos. Only issue is so many different paths as the trek goes on, tags do exist, however by the time you see them, you realise your back on track anyways. Felt like I was getting lost all the time, but as long as your going upstream, then your going in the right direction. Wouldn't recommend after rain, as it's all muddy tracks and slippery rocks for creek crossings |