Another amazing place in Queensland, along with Lamington Park, is Springbrook National Park.
Springbrook, like Lamington, is part of the Rainforest of Eastern Australia and has a lot to see.
Springbrook National Park is divided into 4 parts: Springbrook Plateau, Natural Bridge, Numinbah Section and Cougar Mountain Region.
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| Springbrook National Park |
Here you can walk for a long time, breathe the freshest air and admire the fabulous landscapes, you can have a picnic and relax.
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| Springbrook National Park |
There are no protected or fire hazardous areas on the territory of the park, but at the same time there are just a lot of observation platforms from which amazing views open up.
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| Springbrook National Park |
Most of Springbrook is tropical and eucalyptus forests cut by rivers and streams flowing towards the Gold Coast.
The height on the Springbrook Plateau varies from 600 meters to a kilometer, so it's cool here even in summer.
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| Springbrook National Park |
While walking along the plateau, you can see many beautiful waterfalls, such as the Twin Falls, the rainbow Rainbow Falls and many other equally picturesque waterfalls with difficult to pronounce names (apparently given to them by the Aboriginal tribes living here).
The most amazing part of Springbrook Park, in my opinion, is the Natural Bridge, or Natural Bridge - a natural arch that crosses Cave Creek (a tributary of the Nerang River).
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| Springbrook National Park |
This amazing natural phenomenon was formed thanks to the impact of a waterfall, which literally carved a cave in the rock over thousands of years.
And here is the "culprit" of the deformation of the rock.
Swimming is prohibited here, and jumping from a bridge into the water is generally life-threatening.
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| Springbrook National Park |
No one was forbidden to splash in the purest cool water until colonies of glow worms (larvae of rare mushroom gnats) were found here - after this joyful event, swimming in Cave Creek was prohibited in order to preserve a small population of these rare creatures.
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| Springbrook National Park |
If anyone is interested, then these larvae do not swim in water - they weave a nest of silk on the ceiling in caves, hang down threads with droplets of sticky liquid, and then illuminate them with their own body, attracting small insects. This is how it looks.
If you wish, you can swim downstream, where the prohibition does not apply, but you are unlikely to succeed - it is very shallow there.
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| Springbrook National Park |
The Cougar Mountain region joined the Springbrook National Park relatively recently - in 1990. No matter how logical and obvious it may sound, but the center of this area is precisely Mount Cougar).
This small (only 694 meters above sea level) mountain is easily recognizable by its two peaks - East and West. The tourist path goes down from the mountain and goes along the stream to the remains of a sawmill, which worked here until 1955.