A weekend getaway to recharge, celebrate and explore all within 100 kms of Brisbane. Our destination the Glasshouse Mountains a strange and impressive site named by none other than Captain James Cook in 1770 who took one look at them and thought they looked like the glass furnaces of Yorkshire - I have no idea if they do or they don't but one thing is for sure, they are noteworthy. They are intrusive plugs - the remnants of volcanic activity that occurred in the area some 25-27 million years ago. Molten rock came up and solidified as hard rock to what we see today a vast plain with these plugs poking up. They are Heritage Listed:
This is a collective view- By CoolBeans123 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59352208
The National Heritage List of mountains in the area of the Glass House Mountains National Park is Beerwah (556 metres); Coonowrin (Crookneck) (377 metres); Tibrogargan and Cooee (364 metres and 177 metres); Ngungun (253 metres); the Coochin Hills (235 and 230 metres); Miketeebumulgrai 199.5m; and Elimbah (Saddleback) 109m. In addition there are a further three areas Beerburrum (278 metres); Tunbubudla (the twins) (294 and 338 metres); and Tibberoowuccum (220 metres).
We walked around the base of Tibrogargan, we climbed to the top of Ngungun and Beerburrum and went on several other river walks in the Mooloolah National Park Jowarra section. The forest was largely eucalyptus and not very dense, interspersed with some grand old trees that rose majestically from the ground and whose tops we could barely see. The views were magnificent and along the paths we came across spring flowers and flowering wattles.
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