Delaney's Creek State Forest

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I HEADED up to Mount Mee and arrived at the Dahmongah Lookout at first light to watch an unusual sunrise. The sky glowed an ominous glow from the sun reflecting on the volcanic ash in the high stratosphere from the recent Tongan eruption.

The sky gradually lightened to a fairly normal sunrise revealing the edge of the plateau nearby with views across Wamuran and out to the Glasshouse Mountains.

I left the lookout shortly after sunrise hiking along Pedwell Road following a low ridge along the end of the plateau. The road ran through sunny green farmland before eventually becoming a gravel road as it descended along the edge of the plateau. It then dopped into a grassy clearing at the edge of Delaney's Creek State Forest before the road continued as a rough firebreak along the ridge. I followed this firebreak rising steeply along the hill and into the dense eucalypt forest.

About a kilometre into the forest, the firebreak reached a junction, where a couple of signs pointed to the trails. I turned right and followed the trail descending the ridge off the plateau down into Wamuran Basin. There was quite a lot of variation in steepness and forest as I descended. There were a couple of clearings in the bush with great views of the Glasshouse Mountains.

Upon reaching the bottom of the track at the start of a few lifestyle blocks, I turned around and headed back up the hill to where I was parked.

I drove down Tidwell Road and Campbell's Pocket Road to Jackson Park, a historical spot of some of the early settlers, where the Andersons had built their camp fire back in 1907. From there I walked up R Sampson Road, then R Williams Road (no doubt both named after early settlers of this valley) climbing the hill passing several lifestyle blocks until I reached the point where I had finished hiking through Delaney's Creek Forest. From there I quickly returned down the hill towards Basin Road and continuing to Campbell's Pocket Road where I had hiked to recently.