Andy Mac
15th August 2005, 09:47 AM
Hello1
I've just spent a rather chilly (sleet!) weekend in a "chalet" up at the Bunya Mtns, SE Qld. 25-30 of us gathered for a 40th birthday, so much eating and drinking, especially port and rum!
I've been there a few times before, but the place never fails to impress...the fattest, tallest Bunya pines you'll ever see, pressed together in rainforest gullies; tree trunks covered with a live coat of lichens and ferns; semi-tame parrots with the gaudiest plumage, making for plenty of great snaps of kids with birds perching on them (no, I can't post any... as the old fashioned SLR took what maybe its last journey!); and views from everywhere!!
There is a small museum mostly about the early timber getters, and some old tools etc. I felt guilty eying off some of the Bunyas, lapsing into thoughts about those clean, bright slabs inside! The only woodwork I did was putting an axe into some ironbark for the fireplace!
If you ever get to SE Qld, go for a drive, probably be about 3 hrs from Brisbane (I'm guessing here, as I'm only 1-1 1/2hrs away, being north of Toowoomba), you won't regret it...absolutely beautifal place.
Cheers:D
I've just spent a rather chilly (sleet!) weekend in a "chalet" up at the Bunya Mtns, SE Qld. 25-30 of us gathered for a 40th birthday, so much eating and drinking, especially port and rum!
I've been there a few times before, but the place never fails to impress...the fattest, tallest Bunya pines you'll ever see, pressed together in rainforest gullies; tree trunks covered with a live coat of lichens and ferns; semi-tame parrots with the gaudiest plumage, making for plenty of great snaps of kids with birds perching on them (no, I can't post any... as the old fashioned SLR took what maybe its last journey!); and views from everywhere!!
There is a small museum mostly about the early timber getters, and some old tools etc. I felt guilty eying off some of the Bunyas, lapsing into thoughts about those clean, bright slabs inside! The only woodwork I did was putting an axe into some ironbark for the fireplace!
If you ever get to SE Qld, go for a drive, probably be about 3 hrs from Brisbane (I'm guessing here, as I'm only 1-1 1/2hrs away, being north of Toowoomba), you won't regret it...absolutely beautifal place.
Cheers:D