Pete choose our walk on Thursday, up Mt Coochin, 'the Twins' as this Mountain has two summits and using your imagination, you can see them as co-joined twins. This isn't a difficult or long walk up to the first summit, but is quite steep in places, certainly enough to make me puff and drip sweat. Deciding whether to go left or right when we came to the first fork in the track was the most difficult decision, and we went the wrong way, coming to a dead end and having to turn around, go back and try the other path, which was the right one. A small "goat" track branched off this one, to the right of the track, going up the hill, and this was the track to the summit of the first peak.
The flora on this mountain is quite different to Ngungun or Beerberrum, being more open and smaller trees. We loved the bark on what I think are a type of manuka or kanuka or maybe even melaluca. We were fascinated by the sound the bark made as it slowly rolled up on itself - a constant crackling, as though a thousand lizards were scurrying through the undergrowth around us.
When we got to the first summit, we could see why this mountain is called "the Twins", for there across a gully was the other summit with the track visible up the rocks. It was quite a climb down to the bottom and with my sore knee, it took me a while to pick my way down. The climb up to the other summit was short, a bit of a rock scramble in places, but not too hard.
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| Starting down from summit 1 heading towards the next summit. You can see the track up the other side quite clearly |
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| Picking my way down |
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| We came down that |
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| Up the other side. The poles where a hindrance so I collapse them down and carried them. |
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| Mt Beerwah in the distance and the track down from summit one . |
The views from the top of both summits is good, especially out towards the other Glasshouse Mountains. We decided to not go back the way we came, instead electing to follow a faint path down the ridge and join a track that goes around the base. From there it was a short walk back to the car. It will be a good training ground for me, especially if I go one way, from base, up and over and back to base and then turn round and go back the other way.
We then went home, showered, changed, went up to my Aunts and took her out for lunch. See below.
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| Ginger and cranberry scone with jumble-berry jam |
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| Lemon and key lime meringue pie |
Pete choose our walk on Thursday, up Mt Coochin, 'the Twins' as this Mountain has two summits and using your imagination, you can see them as co-joined twins. This isn't a difficult or long walk up to the first summit, but is quite steep in places, certainly enough to make me puff and drip sweat. Deciding whether to go left or right when we came to the first fork in the track was the most difficult decision, and we went the wrong way, coming to a dead end and having to turn around, go back and try the other path, which was the right one. A small "goat" track branched off this one, to the right of the track, going up the hill, and this was the track to the summit of the first peak.
That meringue pie looks so good. Did you make that? I would walk all day for a slice ��.
ReplyDeleteI love the sounds of the bush too. Like you said the sound of bark and my favourite are Cicadas. The sounds of summer.
Kylie