http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Queensland , Lamington NP en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:31:57 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:31:57 UTC Thanks to our kind hosts Leo aand Mary we spent today in the Lamington National Park. After an early start and a drive through frosty meadows we arrived at O'Reilly's Guesthouse where we walked paths and boardwalks and saw Eastern Yellow Robins Shrubwrens Bush Turkeys and even a juvenile Lyre Bird. After coffee and Lamingtons we travelled on to a variety of lookouts and viewpoints in the b http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/blog-306647.html Queensland where its beautiful one day perfect the next. That's the tourism slogan. It was just bad luck that I arrived in Brisbane right at the same time as an unseasonable severe storm warning was announced. I left Brisbane for the Lamington National Park in the worst rain yet monsoonstyle rain. Lamington is a couple of hours south of Brisbane just near the border with New South Wales. It http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/blog-285334.html After NYE I flew up to Brisbane to meet up with Sean. He instantly whisked me away for my Christmas present a night at O'Reilly's Guesthouse on Green Mountain in the Lamington National Park. We'd been there very briefly last year and I'd said that I wanted to go back so we did.The lodge is set at the top of the mountain in the middle of the rainforest. So technically it shouldn't have com http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/blog-235355.html The Nerang Campervan site wasn't very exciting in fact it was more of a caravan living area We hired a car to drive up the small steep lanes through Lamington National Park. The views of and from the Green Mountains were spectacular We visited O'Reilley's a couple times where many people go for rainforest treks. The woven trees were huge the vines were long and spirally the bird sounds... http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/blog-230243.html Just to let you know we might not be able to come on here for another week or so as we are now off to the Green Mountains. This is where we are gonna go trekking in a tropical rainforest Afterwards we are planning on going to the ultimate hippy town Bryon Bay where we might meet up with Ilana and Kiama's ex babysitter... aww.We will write again when we can Love from the Petits xxx http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/blog-228791.html Our next destination was Lamington National Park on the border with New South Wales which straddles subtropical and temperate climes thus providing a home for many different animal and plant species some unique to the area. It also has a plethora of walking trails of various levels of difficulty so has options for everyone from serious hikers to lazy plodders.We stopped at Canungra to enquire http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Lamington-NP/blog-103153.html