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GOOD morning friends. Today I'm doing a walk in the Glasshouse Mountains going up Mount Beerburrum. It's a nice sunny day today. It is very cold and only going to get up to 20 degrees today. Yesterday it only got to 15.3 degrees, the second coldest day I've had in the 22 years I've been here. I had the fireplace going. Fortunately the sun has come out now, so it's a nice day for a little walk up in the local hills in the Glasshouse Mountains.
I'm now at the summit of Mount Beerburrum up on a fire lookout. As you can probably see this is a very clear day with some of the clearest weather I've ever seen up here. You can see the city which is a good sixty kilometres away. That's pretty impressive. Just going around, you can see out to Moreton Bay and see all of Moreton Island and even North Stradbroke Island. Coming around further you can see Pumicestone Passage and Bribie Island and further around you can see some of the other peaks of the Glasshouse Mountains, Mount Tibrogargan, Tibbererwuccum, Ngungun, and Beerwah the big one at the back. These mountains are all volcanic plugs where there used to be a series of volcanoes over a hot spot. The Australian continent has moved northward over the hot spot and every so often it brings up some volcanoes. You'll find the whole way down the coast there's volcanoes and this is one set of volcanoes here. Behind the Gold Coast you have the Tweed Volcano and there's more volcanoes further south. The hot spot is currently off Tasmania which shows how far the continent has moved in the twenty two odd million years since these volcanoes erupted.
I've just returned from the steep summit walk. It is quite different here to what it used to be last time I was here. There's another track, the Yul-yan-man track which seems to go off some distance away. There's a map here. I've just done this track and I'm about to come back down here. This track goes all the way out this way to the Trachyte Circuit so I'm thinking next time I'm going to do this one and go around the circuit. It looks like a pretty good track.
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