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Eumundi Conservation Park
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25/04/2022

 

Sunshine Coast

Australia

 

26°S
153°E

18 - 103m ASL

 

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RETURNING to Eumundi Village just before first light, I caught the dramatic sunrise over the town as threatening clouds hovered overhead over the purple sky. The clouds cleared enough for me to capture some amazing pictures of Venus and Jupiter in close proximity. Some people were setting up for this morning's ANZAC day services later today. I continued exploring the village until after sunrise when the weather closed in and moderate rain started falling.

From the village I headed up to the main entrance of the Eumundi Conservation Park where I parked before starting to explore the trails.

From the entrance I followed the Blackbutt Trail, once a military road. It ran smooth through the tall cedar forest heading southward. It eventually reached a junction where I continued along the main track passing an old wooden cattleyard set in the bush. Nearby was a small dam. After exploring the cattleyard I continued following the trail to a junction where the Geebung and Figbird Trails headed to the left, but I stayed on the main trail for another hundred metres to the next junction where I turned left to follow the Ironbark Trail deeper into the park.

Heavy rain started falling as I followed the dirt road path descending through the forest. A couple of local runners passed me as the rain fell turning the track into a shallow dirty stream.

The rain didn't last long through, and the track continued its gradual descent into rainforest to eventually reach a swampy paperbark forest with large pools on either side of the track. The track itself was mostly dry as it passed between all the pools. The forest was very narrow here with farmland visible on either side.

Upon leaving the swamp the track undulated along quite a hilly section. The track rose to the tops of the hills and dropped deep into the valleys for about half an hour before reaching its end at a small car park on the North Arm Yandina Creek Road. I followed the road about two hundred metres to the right reaching the point where I had reached yesterday and from there started hiking back along the track in the direction I had come.

No rain fell during my trip back through the forest and across the swamp. I eventually reached the junction where I had left the Blackbutt Trail. From here I turned left to follow the track up the hill from where I could see through the trees to lush farmland. From here the track descended moderately to another entrance at the end of Verrierdale Forest Road.

I followed this gravel road descending into the valley below. The road ended at Sieb Road which I followed to the right until reaching the Maroochy River just before Eumundi. From here I turned back walking along the side of the road as rain fell and heading back into the forest where I had come out of at Verrierdale Forest Road.

Upon returning to the track, I returned to the second junction from where I took a shortcut track back to the beginning park of Blackbutt Trail, going up, then down a steep section. I was relieved to be back on the relatively flat and wide track. I eventually reached the information board where I had started hiking earlier this morning.

From here I headed home before the highway got too busy from the returning traffic from the long weekend.

 
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