Mon 20 Aug, 2012 8:56 am
tecais wrote:I too have been following this thread with some interest. Tasman's thorough documentation and pictures are a fascinating glimpse back in time.
Some may be interested to know Bert Salmon climbed the Cougal Twins on August 12, 1931 with Jean Easton, Nora Dimes, Eddie ?, Eric ? and Harry Payne.
Not to hijack the thread, but much later in 1964 we climbed all three pinnacles of Boyd's Butte but never made it to the Cougals. Even then the Butte was a crumbling pile of loose blocks embedded in a dirt matrix so perhaps little has changed.
We didn't use ropes and found the north pinnacle to be the most perilous, involving a scrabble up vertical dirt on the south arete.
Don't remember much about our approach route except we came up the north ridge then descended the west flank to the creek. The descent was was some of the worst bush bashing I have ever done through dense lantana.
Mon 20 Aug, 2012 9:48 am
Mon 20 Aug, 2012 11:23 am
Sat 08 Sep, 2012 10:55 pm
Sun 09 Sep, 2012 8:50 pm
Sun 09 Sep, 2012 10:55 pm
Haribolman wrote:It allowed us a great view up the valley and perhaps someone can tell me the name of this peak in the center of these photos.
Sun 09 Sep, 2012 10:58 pm
Springbrooker wrote:My dad and I did the cream track last sunday - from Springbrook down to Tallebudgera Valley (we left a car down there).
It took about three hours; and with the 687m elevation change I would recommend the downward trek rather than from the valley up.
There is a giant (living) New England blackbutt (Eucalyptus campanulata) about three quarters of the way up that would rival the "big stump" at the Springbrook National Parks Info Centre on Old School Rd.
Additionally, I can confirm that the "private property" sign at the end of Tallebudgera Creek Rd is inaccurate - according to the latest government cadastral records (I checked this last week), it is public road all the way up to Springbrook.
Mon 10 Sep, 2012 9:54 am
tas-man wrote: ..Bally Mountain according to Google Earth. It has an interesting razorback ridge -...
Mon 10 Sep, 2012 10:36 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:25 pm
tas-man wrote:Did you take any photos of the tree and evidence of the track in the rainforest?
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:37 pm
Springbrooker wrote: I live at Springbrook near the Canyon Lookout and am keen to find out where that farmhouse in your photos is. Can you provide more details? It looks like it is near the old Bilborough's Lookout?
A lot of the land around there has been purchased by the government in the past 5 years and converted to National Park. Most of the buildings have been demolished - I'm interested to know if that farmhouse is one of the demolished ones.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 9:08 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 9:22 pm
Springbrooker wrote: but found an easier way was to drive to the top of Bilborough Circuit and walk up the bitumen maintenance track to the TV towers which are now right near where the old lookout was.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 9:35 pm
Haribolman wrote:Are you allowed to walk up the maintenance track?
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 11:29 pm
Springbrooker wrote:<snip> I live at Springbrook near the Canyon Lookout and am keen to find out where that farmhouse in your photos is. Can you provide more details? It looks like it is near the old Bilborough's Lookout?
A lot of the land around there has been purchased by the government in the past 5 years and converted to National Park. Most of the buildings have been demolished - I'm interested to know if that farmhouse is one of the demolished ones.
Wed 12 Sep, 2012 9:28 am
Springbrooker wrote:<snip>There is another old lookout west of Bilborough's that used to be called Read's Lookout (Mt Springbrook); I took the attached photo from a spot just below it a couple of months ago. It's only just been bought back by the government and converted to national park - absolutely magic spot.
Wed 12 Sep, 2012 11:17 am
Springbrooker wrote:<snip>
A lot of the land around there has been purchased by the government in the past 5 years and converted to National Park. Most of the buildings have been demolished - I'm interested to know if that farmhouse is one of the demolished ones.
Wed 12 Sep, 2012 8:59 pm
tas-man wrote: Did you get any photos from this spot further to the east and south over Mt Cougal? Read's Lookout is named on my old 1971 Springbrook NP Map, and I have scanned a section that shows its location. It is very interesting to cycle through the NearMap aerial photo coverage from 2011/2012 and see all the building removals that have taken place on the Springbrook plateau. Just to the north of Reads Lookout there was a large house and outbuildings that have been totally removed in 2011, although the collection of four water tanks near the lookout are still there.
Wed 12 Sep, 2012 9:20 pm
tas-man wrote:One of the most striking examples of the property buy back and building removal is here at Read's Lookout. I assume that the old access road to this residence can be used to walk up to Mt Springbrook/Read's Lookout now?
Thu 13 Sep, 2012 9:11 am
Springbrooker wrote:<snip>
On another note, i'm keen to check whether the old house in your pics is still there - however, that block is still privately owned, surrounded by high voltage fence and has a big nasty bull roaming around the paddock. I might just stick to aerial photos...
Thu 13 Sep, 2012 10:33 am
Springbrooker wrote:<snip> . . . however, the last time I was up there, when I returned to my car, I had been parked in and some people were waiting for me (Aila Keto & Keith Scott from the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society - ARCS). They weren't too happy about me being there, saying something about vandals etc. <snip>
Thu 13 Sep, 2012 10:42 am
Sun 16 Sep, 2012 10:59 pm
Springbrooker wrote:There is a giant (living) New England blackbutt (Eucalyptus campanulata) about three quarters of the way up that would rival the "big stump" at the Springbrook National Parks Info Centre on Old School Rd.
Mon 17 Sep, 2012 9:09 am
tas-man wrote:Details of the recent Qld Gov acquisitions to expand the Springbrook National Park have been updated today!
Mon 17 Sep, 2012 3:54 pm
Pteropus wrote:Unfortunately there are whispers of the new state government de-gazetting some NPs.
tas-man wrote:Details of the recent Qld Gov acquisitions to expand the Springbrook National Park have been updated today!
Mon 17 Sep, 2012 6:08 pm
tomh wrote:tas-man wrote:Details of the recent Qld Gov acquisitions to expand the Springbrook National Park have been updated today!
Ian, I assume you were being ironic.
Sun 23 Sep, 2012 9:49 pm
Sun 23 Sep, 2012 9:56 pm
firstTimeCaller wrote:We finally made the full distance of the cream track from Tallebudgera to Springbrook. GPS log of the walk is here http://en.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=3385458
We did it in 2.5hrs going uphill. Thanks for the pointers in the right direction.
Very pretty walk. Nice to link up the valley and plateaux in a 9km walk. Doing it by car is 50km+.
Sat 29 Sep, 2012 9:37 pm
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