Springbrook's Nature Bridge Glow Worms

Tonight we drove up into the mountains in Springbrooks National Park into the Nature Bridge section. In this area there is a short circuit walk where you walk through the forests to a waterfall, down into the cave where the falls tumble and then back up and around the back of the falls to the beginning.
This circuit is open 24 hours a day because of it's beautiful scenery during the day and the cave filled with glow worms in the night. We made our way up to the circuit half an hour before dusk and were able to make it to the falls and cave before dusk. The falls tumbled into a cave forming a pool in the bottom and leaving out into the creek and flowing down into the thick rainforest.

We walked down into the cave behind the falls and we could see a couple of tiny glowing specks on the roof of the cave. We decided to walk up to the top of the falls, wait for dusk and go back to the cave to see the glow worms. When we made our way back to the caves the bats were flying around our heads but we could see the glowing worms lighting up the cave in some areas. As it got darker more worms started glowing and you could see them everywhere in the caves. With the lightening flashing and thunder starting we decided it was time to make our way to the car. By this time it was dark and we were trying to walk on the paths while we could hear animals in the bush around us, the thunder crashing and thankfully the lightening helping light the path. We could see these glow worms all along the path and up the mountains, these tiny specks brightly glowing green. When Ryan went to touch one it tried to shrivel up into the mountain and he could hardly see it anymore. Just as we were reaching the end of the trail the rain started.

The drive home was beautiful driving through the valley with the lightening flashes brightening up the sky enough to see the outlines of the mountains and all the trees in the fields. The rain was pounding on the car cooling everything down after another hot day!