Springbrook National Park - Natural Bridge- Best of All Lookout

Mon Nov 21

Our team spent the day basking under the sunny rays.  Brad showed me how to boogie board on 10 ft waves...so much fun!  The ocean floor is sandy and soft - however the waves were quite rough and the current pulls you quickly making it sometimes hard to stand up.

Tues Nov 22

This morning we woke up early and headed out to the rainforest nearby!  

We hit up the Natural Bridge Walk- which lead us to an amazing little waterfall.  

Trees in the National Park were very different than what we are used to back home, and walking through the park had a damp cool feeling that was refreshing.  

Along our walk through, we kept our eyes peeled for any wildlife that we might come across, needless to say, no spiders or snakes were spotted...but this black lizard caught Lindsay off guard as we walked down the walking path.  We snapped a few pictures of it before we slowly wandered off back into the rainforest.

Some of the lookouts that we saw along the way in Springbrook were amazing.  The falls shown below are a plunging 106 meters down- The view was spectacular from so high above and the tree canopy seemed to be never-ending! 

To the left - is the 106m waterfall (not so lush due to a lack of rainfall)

Looking out forward from the railing

Looking at the falls from another lookout point 

More trees :) 

Antarctic Beach Trees

 This tree was actually burnt down in 1911 - and at that point it was already 1,000 years old.  They had to cut and burn the top of it down, as it was too large and close to the school located in the left hand corner of the picture - as was considered to be a risk

 This was looking out from "Best of All" lookout point - the highest peak is Mt Warning which is an inactive volcano

 This was the valley & mountains to the left of Mt Warning

We ended the day with a local stop in a village along the way and chowed down on some delicious meat pies (tomato & onion, bacon & cheese, plain (minced meat) and a sausage roll.

We are taking off tomorrow for Byron Bay!