Mt Tamborine

After visiting my friend Robyn in Southport, she suggested I visit Mt Tamborine. It's about 50k s from Brisbane, has waterfalls ( I love waterfalls!) and a skywalk through the rainforest.

The drive up there is really steep. On your way up from Southport you pas the St Bernard's hotel which  Robyn suggested I would go and have a beer in their pub. The name of the hotel came from the owners love of the breed. At the moment they own two an adult and a pup. Because if left Southport rather late and needed to secure a campsite I reckoned I would have the beer on the way down the next day, not realising I wouldn't be going down the same path. But if I am ever back in the area it will be on my "must do" list.

Up on the mountain there are two main campsites, the Tamborine Mountain caravan camping ($10) and the Thunderbird park campsite ($14). The first was fully booked so I went to the second and got a spot. Now here is where it gets confusing... While I was studying the ground map at the reception of the Tamborine Mountain caravan park (where the map led me) a lady came asking what I was looking for. She turned out to be the owner of the T. M.C.P. And explained that the previous owner of all that land had sold her the front and the back to the Thunderbird park...obviously she wasn't very happy about that. Her amenities were in the middle of the park while those of the Thunderbird were right across of her reception...

The Thunderbird park has a fancy restaurant, bar, bunckhouses, camp area and of course a park. They offer horseback riding, mini golf, thunderegg fossicking, tree top challenging, laser skirmish, bush walking etc.. 

None of which I did...

The Cedar Creek river ran behind my camp spot, so I decided to walk the path next to it looking for a rockpoole deep enough to have a swim. Found one not very large but deep enough. I overheard so e people talking about the Real Cedar Creek river waterfalls at the Tamborine National park. 

The parking area at the entrance was very tiny and lots of people park their cars on the main road a bit further up. In hindsight I should have done the same. 

The road to the parking area is very narrow and while trying to get out of the way of a car crossing me I hit a low wooden fence. I stopped not knowing what I hit, but a croup of teens coming from the other direction encouraged me to ceep driving. To their delight and great joy I did and ended up with a piece of wood stuck in the frontside of Dory. 

Once down I found a parking spot but the day was lost, my mood was least to say foul. The place was filled with people so I turned around and decided to give the skywalk a try. 

When I arrived at the Rainforest Skywalk and saw that it costs $19 I skipped that as well. 

Cedar Creek behind my camp spot.

The Tamborine National Park with its beautiful waterfalls.