Day thirty nine

Today we are returning to Sydney on a five o'clock flight. We decided to head up North to Tambourine Mountain National Park for some walks and waterfalls. As we headed up the mountain we got a very good view down to the coast and the shoreline.

Gold Coast

Our first stop was at Cedar Creek Falls, a short walk beside some cascades.

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The next walk was at the Joalah Section. This was proper rainforest, very dark and very humid. 

Rainforest

Strangler fig

Waterfall

Waterfall

 

Well made path

 At one point we walked, very quickly, under a colony of flying foxes.

Bats

 The trees are very impressive and even more so when they are wrapped in strangler fig vine.

Strangler fig vine

And then we made our way back to Gold Coast airport for a quiet flight back to Sydney. The view from the runway was impressive, the mountains are the remnants of a volcano. We also saw Byron Bay, which was where we walked out to the lighthouse.

Boarding

Byron Bay