Tamborine Mountain

Big trees on Witches falls circuit.

Today was the day to visit Tamborine Mountain.

Although the ground was wet following  overnight rain, we enjoyed sunshine all day and made the most of it.

We found some wonderful walks in the Tamborine area, and admired Rainforest areas and other drier bush areas as we followed some of the walking trails. We also visited the botanic gardens in Tamborine which are pretty good, if small.

We also added 7 or 8 more geocaches to our total,  as we found them while touring around the local spots.  There are certainly some impressive views to be had from a number of the spots along the road,  and from local lookouts, and the Surfers Paradise skyscrapers sure stand out well along the coast.

Love these huge strangler figs

We admired the view from the spot where the local hang gliders take off  -incredible view!

We also enjoyed a leisurely lunch at the Polish place, where the parrots come to the tables in search of sugar and dairy froth, and the kookaburras serenade the diners in style.  

A view of scenery and birds at  "The Polish Place"

In fact I don't remember ever hearing so many kookaburras in one day, and seeing so many.

I'm not sure that the kookas take much notice of the signs.
 Near Cedar Creek falls.

We finished up with one last walk in the botanic gardens (complete with lovely lake and bridge) and the MacDonald section of Tamborine National Park, where we completed one last loop walk before heading for home via the steep and winding roads.

Botanic gardens 

The weather man says that we may have thunderstorms tomorrow, so we will wait and see if we can get out and about again or whether it becomes another day for lazing.