Blogs from Girraween National Park, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Girraween National Park August 12th 2012

We are enjoying exploring the diversity of terrain that Queensland has to offer and always take the opportunity to discover somewhere new when there is a long weekend or a birthday to celebrate, so with that in mind a weekend was booked for Kevins birthday to drive the 4 hours journey through the Great Dividing Ranges and Cunninghams Gap onto Warwick and south to Stanthorpe and Tenterfield, into the Granite Belt countryside. We were expecting to see vines growing in abundance in the area and was surprised to discover very little evidence of any vineyard, instead vast expanses of agricultural land where cows grazed and gum trees filled the horizon. We stopped in Warwick for a bite to eat and wondered down the main high street under the large verandas that covered the walkways. Wide streets ... read more
The Pyramids
Looking up!
Almost at the summit.


On Saturday we left Bellbird and continued west on Gwydir Hwy, stopping at Raspberry Lookout and Boundary Creek Falls along the way and still located in Gibraltar National Park. We took the short cut to the New England Hwy and travelled north to Tenterfield. We had lunch here and then continued on to Wallangarra and the NSW-Qld border. We decided to stay in Girraween National Park in Queensland because it was significantly cheaper than Bald Rock and Boonoo Boonoo National Parks in NSW. Girraween was $19.40 per night for a family (2 adults and 2 or more children) whereas these two NSW parks (and many others) cost $10 per adult and $5 per child. Queensland parks also don't charge daily use fees while NSW parks charge $7 (or sometimes $11) per day, although we were exempt ... read more
Welcome to the time zone!
Pyramid Two
Granite Arch




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