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Byron Creek and Somerset Lookout

Byron Creek and Somerset Lookout
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02/01/2022

 

Pine Rivers

Australia

 

27°S
153°E

280 - 669m ASL

 

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I HEADED up to Mount Mee in the early morning, turning off at the top of the hill heading into The Gantry. From the day use area, I followed the road back a short distance to K Break (a four wheel drive road), which I followed southwards for a kilometre or two before turning left onto A Break which has a gate across it being closed to vehicles due to flooding damage from recent storms. Hikers are allowed through though, so I followed this break for another two hundred metres through the gnarly mountain gum forest before reaching Hangar Break.

I headed down Hangar Break, which was initially a gradual descent along the top of the plateau before moderately dropping down beside a gully. The forest quickly changed from the gnarly mountain gums to slender open eucalypt forest. I passed through an open gate just before the track steepens again. About a hundred metres later I spotted a small brown snake disappearing off the track ahead of me. Further along the track steepens again as the spur drops into the valley below.

I eventually reached the bottom of the valley where the track became a little muddy before reaching Byron Creek, flowing a lot higher than it had done last time I was here in August. This is as far as I go. I rested here at the creek for a few minutes before heading back up the break, following the steep track which gradually modified and eventually flattened as it reached the top of the plateau.

Upon returning to the junction at A Break, I followed it back to K Break before turning left and continuing to follow the break away from The Gantry. From here I needed to find the Somerset Trail. After following K Break for about a kilometre, the forest to the right was charred from a recent burnoff. I spotted a track to the right with a rusty gate over it. I decided to follow this track to cut across to the next main break from where I'll be able to access Somerset Trail. The track was narrow and a little overgrown in places, with a couple of small creek crossings.

After following this track for about half an hour I reached K Break again, now heading in a different direction and a lot rougher than it was with water channels carved into the gravel surface. I followed this road uphill for a while before reaching the top of the rise where the Somerset Trail crossed.

I turned left to follow the Somerset Trail along the top of the low ridge heading across the plateau. The forest here was quite thin and gnarly letting plenty of signlight through. I continued along the trail until it reached the edge of the plateau from where a cliff dropped steeply affording spectacular views down and across the Brisbane Valley, with good views of Lake Somerset and the more distant Lake Wivenhoe. By now the sky was overcast with a large cloud now sitting overhead.

I stopped about half way along this cliff section to where a sofa was positioned in the bush, carried up from the nearby four wheel drive track sometime recently. I relaxed on the sofa looking at the great view for a while before continuing hiking along the track, which turned back across the plateau continuing its roughtly circular journey back to The Gantry.

The sun came back out again as I continued around the trail. A slightly pulled muscle in my leg was slowing me down a little, and the sun was dropping quite fast, so when the track reached the gravel Loveday's Road, I just followed this undulating road back to The Gantry to ensure I get there before sunset. I returned with plenty of time.

 
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