All Aussie Adventures: CANIA GORGE

And on that frog and toad we past through Karen's favourite, Ban Ban springs

Do... do... do... do... do... do... let's go to Ban Ban

Oh and by the way they have cowboys up in Queensland. Here's one just hanging out with his couple of dogs and the herd:)

Anyway we set up a few kilometres out of Cania Gorge and decided to do a bit of trekking through an incredible landscape amongst the monolith rock formations.

Set for trekking close up and personal

These monolith formation have a habit of falling apart in huge slabs or blocks as you can see here. Watch out Kazzzy!

This particular trek is on the western side of the gorge and is called the Two Storey Cave trek.

The monolith formations are essentially sandstone rock that when it is mined, which they do in certain areas, it is a bit like limestone but has beautiful colours embedded through the rock. Contractors were making a wall of it on the boardwalk in Caloundra which looked beautiful. Sorry no pictures.

Parts of this trek were just super impressive and without someone standing in the picture for reference it is difficult to realise the size of this place

This was a formation that has a name but I forget what it was called, sorry. Truly spectacular in any case!

The pictures are impressive but still don't do the real life justice

I love this place and could have stayed for ages just to take in the awe of it all!

You end up getting a crook neck looking up at it all

Wow!

If you remember the first ledge you can see on the right wall

another picture of that first ledge

You can see Karen standing under that first ledge. Makes you feel pretty small and insignificant eh!

Time to go

One last look, again you can see that first ledge about a third of the way up!

All manner of plant life tends to grab a hold and start growing out of the rock face. Here you can see 'Staghorn plants growing all over.

Again that referencing thing.....

Hello Karen ;)

View to the other side of the gorge

The laughing rock face. Can you see it? Or perhaps you could just call me special? hahahahahah

Again massive big slabs of this rock falls away over the years

Huge ghost gum in the foreground

This rock face has a fish in its formation, can you see it? Yeah, yeah, yeah I can hear you all saying Mark must be on the funny stuff, but promise I'm not! Hahahahahaha

Rock on!

So on the way to the next trek we caught up with an old school buddy of mine Peter Mummy. As it would happen he is working in the area delivering vegetables to all of the locals. A far cry from the science room antics we used to get up to with those bunsen burners eh Pete! If only Mr Johnson knew how we used to light those things eh! Hahahaha

And that time Mr Collins caught us outside the library pretending to read books! He knew very well that we couldn't read a word! Hahahahaha

Ahhhh Pete those were the days when we didn't have a worry in the world other than which girls we would be chasing and where the party would be on the weekend!
We decided to have a quick drink to celebrate old times, but truth be told Pete is all wrapped up in his work these days so he really couldn't hang around because the veggies just had to get delivered.

So after some fond reminiscing I said see ya Pete Mummy drive carefully and with that my old school buddy mate was off to finish his veggie deliveries!
You couldn't find a better bloke!

So with that we we off on our next trekking adventure

So Karen what are you contemplating about?

When this river is in full swing I don't think I would want to be crouching here

The beautiful colours of the ochre etch out of this sandstone and is deposited on the ground

Hey Karen what are you doing?

Well Mark I decided to pick up one of those pieces of bark off the ground over there and mix a bit of water with the different sandstone ochre colours and make a bark painting.

Wow Karen is there anything you can't do!?

Well actually yes in my the spare 5 minutes I had I whipped up this vine swing. Gee Karen I love you!

Karen standing by herself

Big massive tree

I think the set square was out a little bit on this structure.....

This fine fellow was the local bouncer standing outside the town hall in Moonford. Apparently anyone messing about or a little too intoxicated don't just get thrown out but they get beheaded!