It's a short car journey, and the mountain tops out at 525 m, which isn't especially high but certainly high enough to give astonishing views of the surrounding landscape - which will be why around 7000 people live up there.
Here's a map.
It's also high enough to be decidedly cooler than down below. Here's a view west and inland across the hinterland, from one of the residential streets.
And here is a big gum tree in the middle of the road. There are all sorts of gum trees (eucalyptus trees to you and me), so I have no idea what kind this is, beyond the obvious fact that it is very big.
They do a nice line in tall trees here actually. We stumbled across the botanic gardens up there. It was getting a bit late, but we had a quick waddle around.
As ever, my camera was not really up to the task of capturing just how tall the trees were. Towering fits quite nicely.
It was lovely and shady. And stuffed full of kookaburras, all chuckling away like loons.
I liked this little bottle tree.
And there was plenty of other nice stuff going on.
Then we doodled along to Eagle Heights, mainly for the view... but also for some Hummingbird Cake.
Here is a view to the North (east-ish). More of that endless rolling hinterland basking in the late afternoon sun.
Here are a couple of views to the east, out towards the coast and there in the background, our beloved Goldie.
One of the strange things about here is the length of the day, which runs at around 12 hours of daylight all year round. This is very different to the gradual shortening and lengthening of the days that we're used to in the UK. The day always ends (and therefore starts) somewhere pretty much between about 5 and 6 O'clock. For this reason, Queensland does not participate in daylight saving as they have little to gain.
Here are a couple of sunset shots, over the hinterland.
I could wander around Australia just looking at it, and being in it, for a long time I reckon.
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