Natural Bridge

Today I decided to branch out a bit and while Eloise was at Nursery and Nicole asleep and take a trip to Spingbrook National Park and its natural arch and try out my new tripod, successfully retrieved on Tuesday!

Oh what a jolly time I had with it, wiggling around its little legs and wobbling around its n-planar gyroscopically non-assisted pan head.

The scenery was pretty stunning on the way up a nice, eeaassy road which led up a valley, Numinbah by name, over bridges with great names like "Black Shoot Creek", past horses and cows and old Queenslanders (um, houses).

The local geological architecture is mainly post-volcanic rhylite wot leads to nice craggy rocky escarpments poking out from above the trees. In fact the whole area is a remnant of a massive volcano 23 million years ago which is now called Mount Warning, or mount danger, or something like that.

The walk down to the Natural Arch was non-challenging and pleasant, crossing the creek via nice wooden bridges before taking you into this deep dark cave, resonating to the sound of a nice cool shower with the sunlight shining down through this nice big rocky skylight with water falling through it.

After I climbed up the other side, looked down to see some starry eyes couple getting hitched yes married there at the mouth of the cave.

Eloise had a lovely day back at the Nursery and was totally exhausted when I picked her up but really enjoyed my short-grain rice which was unpleasantly reminiscent of risotto rice.