Currumbin, Qld

Finally some weather worthy of that Qld slogan about being beautiful one day and fabulous the next. The wind has dropped and the sun has come out to play.

We had heard about Currumbin Rock Pools, which sounded interesting, but then Judy's hairdresser told her that if you go there, you need to go further up into the valley there are some more rock pools and waterfalls that are just fantastic....

We followed his advice and once we had doubled back onto the right road, we found ourselves at the top of the valley where there was a very pleasant walk up into the mountains, meandering alongside the swiftly flowing creek, tumbling over rocky falls from one pool to the next. Actually the water didn't look that inviting, it was a weird green colour and freezing. Obviously didn't stop some from jumping the safety fences and having a dip. The whole area is now a national park but in a previous life had been cleared of all the huge trees and then completely cleared to make way for a banana plantation. One thing they didn't think of back then was that the arsenic they used to kill the rats ended up in the river, along with the dead rats, thus killing everything else. As t turns out the bananas were wiped out by a cyclone after two years and they took to dairy farming instead. The timber felling continued up to the 1960's but since then the whole place has been protected and left to regenerate, which as the pictures show, is working nicely. The drive up into the valley is also worth the effort.

We also spent some time the next day wandering around Burleigh Heads beach and having a general fiddle about the beach side of the Gold Coast.

Some snaps from those last couple of days -> Currumbin, Qld

Snap of the day

(nothing to do with Currumbin, just JB fishin')