Mount Beerwah

Why do we climb mountains? My afternoon in the Glasshouse Mountains

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July 13th 2012
Why do we climb mountains? My adventure today was to go check out some of the views around the Glasshouse mountains. I drove from Caloundra using the Steve Irwin Highway to visit Mount Tibrogargan and Mount Beerburrum. I'm not going to go on and on about how beautiful it was- the pictures should speak for themselves. What I will say however is that Mount Beerburrum is worth the slip ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more