Glass House Mountains

On my first hike in Queensland I headed up to the Glass House Mountains about an hour north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. The 'mountains' were Named by Captain Cook for there appearance and similarity in shape to the glass stoves used in England at the time. They are old volcanoes or hot spots were lava build up a dome underground. Then over centuries all the sandstone has erroded away to reveal what we see today. There are about 7-8 mountains of various size and shape. I chose Beerwah that you seen in the first picture below. The 'trail' heads up the light colored area in the middle of the mountian and is quite steep for the first part.

I turned into a hot day and I drank 3 liters of water in a 2.5 hour hike, mostly on the way up were I was actually driping with sweat.

View from the top was beautiful in all directions. To the west as you see in the bottom picture is another mountain and the south end of the Sunshine Coast. I lingered at the summit for 30 min or so to enjoy the pay off of the hike and then went down.

I met 3 guys from Brisbane on the way down that were suprised I was there alone and from the states. I didnt think much of it. They were nice and I asked them all sorts of questions about the area, Queensland and Brisbane.

The hike down was a bit harder than the way up
but was not to bad. you can see the guys on the way down blow me. it was steep enough that you almost wanted to turn around and head down like a ladder.

After my hike which I completed by 1 pm to get down before any storms, I headed to the bay for a kite session.