running long 1:35:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2140
The birds on the mountain woke up even earlier than mum did, so by 6am I was off exploring North Tamborine. The Beacon lookout, Witches Falls, across to Palm Grove section of the national park and back to the motel through Eagle Heights. Had to try not to trip over scrub turkeys and small wallaby-like creatures in the bush. Everything smelled lovely and damp like grandma's garden used to.
Conferencing over, mum & I drove south to Coolangatta/Tweed Heads, stood on the border under the Captain Cook monument, then headed up the river to Murwillumbah and back over the mountains via Springbrook. I finally saw mangoes growing on a tree, and I ate a frozen choc-dipped banana in the tiny hamlet of Chillingham. Could be worth making them at home!
Tyson, did you know that there is/was confusion over the location of the NSW/Queensland border at the point where it hits the coast, and that Captain Cook is partly responsible, and that even the most eminent of NSW's surveyors in 1978 couldn't agree on where the border shoud be? Seems that Cook described a headland with an island next to it and called that Point Danger, but now that headland is known as Fingal Head and Point Danger is a couple of miles further north. So the border is officially at Point Danger, but the question remains, is Point Danger really Cook's Point Danger, or should the border be at Fingal Head?