Springbrook National Park

After picking up our fabulous rental car today we made our way West into the Gold Coast Hinterland to the Springbrook National Park. It is located in the mountains covered in rainforests and walking trails. We made our way up the very windy roads which was great practice for getting used to the wrong side of the road and car. I have decided that so far Australia is the traffic circle King. I think we made our way around more then a dozen which can be quite stressful when you're on the opposite side of the road and not too sure where you're going. We did see some great road signs like Kangaroo and Koala crossings but unfortunately the only wild life we saw was road kill, poor joey.
We made our way to the "Best of Them All" lookout which was a 300m walk that lead to the rim of a 20 million year old volcano that had been eroded and was now covered in dense rainforest. You could see beyond the ocean and the green forest that seemed to go on forever to both the right and left. Along the way we ran into a great black snake looking lizard hiding in a small bush. Ryan couldn't help but try to move it somehow and eventually scared it out of sight.

We then drove back down the mountain a ways and stopped at the lookout for the Purling Brook Falls which were beautiful! There were two different lookouts and we walked to each of them getting two fantastic views of these huge falls tumbling down into the forest. Along with the view of the falls we were able to enjoy the cool walk through the trees and enjoy some shade from the sun.