How's it going Hive?
The covid restrictions have finally eased off in Queensland!! So we definitely needed an outing to get out of the house!
We rounded up the gang and headed south of Brisbane to check out some caves that we had seen on the internet.
These caves were in the LAMINGTON National Park at a place called Binna Burra in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Once we finally made our way up through the mountain range we arrived at the entrance of Binna Burra. Only to find out that the road has been blocked off and no entrance allowed 鈽癸笍
Earlier this year Australia suffered from the largest bush fires in recent history and all of Binna Burra lodge was lost to the fires. So they have closed it down for repairs which is still ongoing.
Now we had to make a back up plan with the quickness... as we had just drove one and a half hours to get here.
A quick google search and we were a 6min drive from Lips Falls. Which is a place we had never heard of before and it turned out to be the best plan B this year!
We followed Google maps which lead us to this driveway to someone's home. At the entrance there was a large private property sign and a map bellow it.
Lots of people must show up to their house thinking it was the route to the falls...
None the less we follow the map and find some cars parked on the side of the road. We knew we had made it.
Once we enter the walkway to start our hike we noticed this sign saying the track to the swimming holes was closed. The locals didn't seem to be so happy about this decision made by the local council.
It turns out that part of the walking trail crosses over some private property which the new residents didn't like. So the trail has been shut down since 2017. None the less we were on a mission!
We were soon greeted by some local wallabies as we got further down the trail.
Not long after we arrived at the viewing point/look out of the Denham Falls.
We had to get down to these Falls so we continued on the track. Only to eventually be met with this huge fence blocking the path that had security cameras.
We tried to work out which way we would go down the hill until a man showed up and pointed us in the right direction. Now we speculated that this guy wasn't really a local but a ghost of a man that was killed for trespassing and was leading us to our demise haha.
Anyway we walked along the fence line until the end.
Then had to spin around the end and walk our way back up. Just make sure you hold on tight!
The trail was in really good condition so we continued to follow it down.
As we got to the bottom we were greeted by a river.
Then up ahead was the amazing Lips Falls!!
It's winter here now but in summer this would be the best swimming spot! It was definitely too cold for a swim today.
We made the decision to head up stream to find the bottom of the Denham waterfall.
It was alot of fun jumping across the rocks making our own path up stream.
We finally made it to the bottom of the waterfall.
The water goes straight down into a cave that lies below the rocks.
It hasn't rained much lately but the water was still flowing.
It's so beautiful out here. And it was amazing to finally get out of the house!!
Best plan B ever!
Happy travels!
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