Profile for rb - Aussie Bushwalking

This Year

Number of Walks Ticked

7.2km

Total Distance Ticked

All Time

130

Number of Walks Ticked

480.3km

Total Distance Ticked

Ticks

Name	Date	Difficulty	Distance/Duration
Oceanview Walk (Gold Coast)	11 Jan, 2022	Easy	1.2km one-way 30 mins
Baroon Lookout (Kondalilla National Park)	28 Nov, 2021	Easy	4.9km return 2 hrs
So lush and dreamy 🌧️🍄 Walked after a week of La Nina rain and the whole track has transformed into a fungi wonderland. Seriously magical <3 Also the tusked frog calls are super prolific atm. I'm sure I heard a bunch of other frogs too I just couldn't identify them 🐸
Rainforest Circuit (D'Aguilar National Park)	30 May, 2021	Medium	2km 1 hr
What a beautiful short walk today! The Greenes Falls track was closed due to tree damage so we decided to walk this very slowly and really take in the details. 🐁🕷️💚🍄 Some amazing spots include: A long-nosed bandicoot scurrying in the leaf litter, so many pademelons, hill banks full of burrows housing wishbone spiders, empty snail shells, and fungi galore. Highly recommend doing a "grounding" walk like this once in a while. Quite different to being focused on fitness or counting up kilometres. Great for your heart and your soul :)
Mt Cotton (South East Queensland)	23 May, 2021	Medium	3.5km return 75 mins
Okay walk, good for a workout and not much else. Nothing toooooo interesting in the track itself. The view was good but currently half obstructed by construction work as they are building a platform viewing area and new bitumen roads up to the viewpoint. I predict this place will be a lot more developed and touristy in the next few years...
Kureelpa Falls (Mapleton National Park)	7 Mar, 2021	Easy	2.5km return 1 hr
So lush 💧💧💧 Super lucky to have this all to ourselves today! A decent amount of water in the falls. Really fun to scramble around and rock hop up and down the creek, exploring some of the smaller rock pools and personal jacuzzis experience. Loved how quiet and private it felt with no one around! We opted for the longer signed track from the day-use area. The walk to the falls was pretty easy as it is all downhill. A bit tiring walking back to the car park tho after a couple of hours swimming and up an incline but nothing major.
The Northbrook River Trail (Northbrook Gorges) (Brisbane Forest park D'Aguilar National Park)	28 Feb, 2021	Medium	6km 3 hrs
Gardners Falls (Sunshine Coast)	7 Feb, 2021	Very Easy	600m return 30 mins
Always a classic 💧 Easy to get to, heaps of rockpools to choose from, cool and refreshing water. There's a reason it's so popular!
Castle Rock (Girraween National Park)	19 Jan, 2021	Hard	4.4km return 90 mins
What a gorgeous sun-drenched day ☀️ Dramatic landscapes all around with a gazillion boulder formations everywhere. The panorama at the summit was insane and IMO better than the Pyramid (because we had it to ourselves). We had lunch in the shade overlooking the national park and it was so so lovely. 🦎 A handful of Cunningham skinks, and a whole bunch of other lizards and skinks 🌼💐 Cool flora spots: We're at the tail end of the flowering season I think but there's still some around. Wattles, a field of flannel flowers, isotomas, yellow buttons, flax-lilies, daisies in an assortment of colours, granite bluebells everywhere.
The Sphinx and Turtle Rock (Girraween National Park)	19 Jan, 2021	Medium	7km return 2.5 hrs
Completely baked ourselves during this walk ☀️ Combined with the Castle Rock track. We weren't as impressed with these two. Didn't know you could climb up Turtle Rock as there was no information on the national park website, but we'd probs be too tired anyway. Definitely did not take enough water lmao
Boat Harbour, Point Danger and North Tweed Circuit (Gold Coast)	16 Jan, 2021	Easy	4.15km return 1 hr
Snapper Point (New South Wales)	6 Jan, 2021	Easy	8.3km return 3 hrs
A moody, cloudy day by the coast 🌧️ Great little track with very dramatic views. Finished the track at Chinamans Beach as the tide was extremely high and the weather started getting stormy.
Joggly Point (New South Wales)	4 Jan, 2021	Easy	2km return 1 hr
A moody, cloudy day by the coast 🌧️ Great little track with very dramatic views.
Minyon Grass to Base of Minyon Falls (Nightcap National Park)	3 Jan, 2021	Hard	4km return 2 hrs
Wet and gushy 💧 An essential in the Northern Rivers waterfall trail 💦 Relatively easy until the last section where you have to rock scramble up to the waterfall base. Everything is super slippery rn because of the rain so be careful. Water flow was inteeeeeense, like u don't even need to hop in the rockpool for a swim to get wet. Just standing by the water is enough from the mist 💧 🌼💐 Cool flora spots: Heaps of fungi like coral fingers, turkey tails, and jelly mushrooms. Mass colonies of stream lily. A beautiful blotched hyacinth orchid 💜 And another small green orchid that I presume to be a mosquito orchid of some sort.
Protesters Falls walking track (Nightcap National Park)	2 Jan, 2021	Medium	1.4km return 90 mins
💦 She's flowing alright 💦 Great little walk! I love how the trail meanders alongside the creek. Beautiful natural details from the lichen and moss covered rocks in the palm forest, to huge strangler figs, and many many quaint little rockpools. The rocks on the base of the waterfalls can be slippery. Saw a few people swimming here which was super disappointing as it is prohibited to protect an endangered froggy friend 🐸
Cronan Creek Falls Track (Mt Barney National Park)	20 Dec, 2020	Medium	13km 5 hrs
She's gushy! Last weekend's rain made for some marvellous swimming 🌊 Really easy track though management roads. Every creek crossing is fullll azzz, like 7-8 crossings, so expect to get your shoes wet! Glad they added a little sign on the left of the track for the last 100m to the falls through some scrub. Water be freezing tho 🥶❄️🥶
Cliveden Avenue Reserve (South East Queensland)	19 Dec, 2020	Easy	2.2km return 40 mins
Box Forest (Lamington National Park)	12 Dec, 2020	Medium	10.6km 5 hrs
Walked this in the rain today-- suuper lush, really puts the rain in rainforest. Pretty quiet, only saw maybe 4 other people on the entire circuit. Some leeches here and there but nothing too major! Just don't pee in the bushes like me or you'll feel weird and squirmy for the rest of the walk 😬 🌼💐 Currently in bloom: Stream lillies were super cute, heapsssssssss of fungi friends, and an endangered dorrigo waratah!!
Oxley Creek Common-Secret Forest Walk (Brisbane City Council Local Walks)	27 Nov, 2020	Easy	4.6km return 1 hr
Oxley Creek Common-Pelican Island Walk (South East Queensland)	27 Nov, 2020	Easy	3.5km return 45 mins
Stony Creek (Bellthorpe National Park)	22 Nov, 2020	Easy	600m return 30 mins
The lake was a littttle dry this time of year, but this didn't stop families coming in and exploring. Decent amount of cars in the parking lot. A good grassy area to set down a picnic blanket, people sunbathing, playing frisbee, sitting by the water and painting, etc.