I’m still on holiday. We try to make the most of time off so today we boarded the enormous truck and pointed it southwards towards Mount Tamborine. This is a 600m high remnant of the Tweed shield volcano which blew up around 20 million years ago.
One of the attractions there is a suspended walkway through he rainforest canopy. It would have been good if “Rainforest” and “Canopy” parts had triggered some thoughts about “Vertigo”, “Plummet” and “Fear of certain death” before we arrived. Once we’d forked over the twenty bucks a head I wasn’t going to let my residual plains-ape instincts prevent a good day out. The suspended walkway is solidly built but is designed to permit a clear view in all directions – including straight down to the rainforest floor 20 metres below.
The views across the rain forest were stunning. Serious photography was done by other people. I spent my time worrying about the engineering and chivvying the party onwards to solid ground.
Anyway, pictures:
