Hiking and Camping in the Conondale Ranges

The GS is perched at the Booloumba look-out. Across the valley is Mount Allan.

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I cooked Maggie two-minute noodles on my alcohol stove without leaving my tent. (The leeches were out there!)

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This is the Booloumba Falls.

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Before the bats took up residence here, gold and manganese were exctracted from this mine.

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This enormous strangler-fig has done very nicely for itself.

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I took lunch on Sunday near this cairn in the Booloumba Creek.

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Sometimes, I think that park staff are a little conservative about designated tracks for four-wheel-drive vehicles only. I crossed a few streams on my GS500 (some of them deeper than that shown here). Here's to one-wheel-drive!

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These tourist drives through the mountains are fantastic on the bike. Gunners, you visited us a week too early! You'd have loved this.

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This is the view, on my way home, south-east across to Brisbane.

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