Murphys Law was running true to form as we’d had four days of misty, cloudy mornings up at O’Reilly’s. The day we left to head to Springbrook National Park, and the Natural Bridge was blue skies and bright sunshine. Waterfalls are never good in bright sunlight.

We set off back down the winding, narrow road to Canungra and then diverted to Springbrook, arriving around 11 am.  The walk to the Natural Bridge is a loop. With the recommendation to do it in a clockwise direction or else you have a  lot of stairs coming back up, we were still worn out (and hot) by the time we got back up, but doing it clockwise was better. There were a lot of steps going down, and I would not have liked to do all those stairs in reverse!

Natural Bridge

By the time we got to the Natural Bridge at Springbrook National Park, the sun was high in the sky, and the rock opening was being hit but loads of sun.  It blew out the highlights even with five image HDR stack. We did find some interesting mushrooms growing on a log on the way back.

Fungi

Leaving the Natural Bridge, we turned left instead of right, and a few kms down the road came to the border. a quick photo stop before we turned around 🙂

Borders

We stopped for a quick lunch and then headed to the ‘Best Of All Lookout’, yep they really called it that.  The walk to the lookout was an easy 350 metres through the rainforest.

Goomahlara Falls

Our last stop before we headed down to Surfers Paradise was Goomahlara Falls.  It’s an easy 200m walk from the carpark that brings you to a little lookout with the waterfall off to the side, and you cant get to the bottom—crappy point of view for a photo.  Heading back to the carpark, Carole left the path, and we headed through the scrub to the stream. Goomahlara Falls, which made a much nicer shot 🙂

the edge of the rocks drops off to a sheer cliff, so this was as close as we went.  From here, we headed down to our apartment in Surfers for the next four nights. We had chosen one with a city view, and I was hoping to get some nice night shots and maybe a timelapse