The track was closed for some time after our recent heavy rainfalls and it is still very damp and muddy in places, as well as littered with branches, fallen trees and other debris washed through with the floods. However, many grand trees still tower over the track and the sunlight filtering through the forest made for a very pretty walk.
Margot waited nine months for her new car, and today the Hungry Hikers christened it with a trip up to Mt Tamborine. It was a little chilly up there, but the sky was clear and the sun bright. We began with a hike along the Witches Falls Circuit. The track descends the steep mountain side through the forest, allowing occasional scenic views inland. It eventually flattens out and continues through a stretch of seasonal lagoons. The track was closed for some time after our recent heavy rainfalls and it is still very damp and muddy in places, as well as littered with branches, fallen trees and other debris washed through with the floods. However, many grand trees still tower over the track and the sunlight filtering through the forest made for a very pretty walk. According to a plaque in the park, the Falls were named by 8-year-old Hilda Curtis, whose task after school was to round up the family’s cows. Sometimes they would wander down the mountain and by the time she got them back up, it would be pitch black in the rainforest. She was sure that the dark forest on the creek was haunted, so she called them Witches Falls, and the name has stuck. After completing the Witches Falls Circuit, we drove the short distance to Cedar Creek Vineyard and Winery where we planned to eat lunch after completing a Glow Worm Cave tour. The tour is through a purpose-built cave filled with thousands of glowing glow worms. The cave was created to protect the local species of glow worms, Arachnocampa flava, which is extremely useful in our Australian ecosystems by helping control insect populations. The goal of this cave and the glow worm tours is to make an experience which is accessible for families, while benefiting wild glow worm populations. Since people have been diverted to this cave instead of local glow worm colonies, glow worm numbers in the wild have begun increasing again. Lunch was a great finale to the day. The setting was perfect, as were the pulled pork burgers and the wine produced here at the winery.
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