From Sydney we flew to Brisbane and rented a car for the next two weeks we were going to spent on east coast. First couple of days we went to see two national parks near Brisbane, Springbrook national park on the Gold coast and Glass House Mountains national park on the Sunshine coast. 

For more than a month we were carrying tent, sleeping bags, camping matress and a cooker (trangia) in our backpacks and not once got to use them. Finally in Springbrook we booked a camping spot in a Settlement camping area (6,35$/night/person) and got to set up our tent. The camping area was pretty nice. There was only about 10 spots for a car and a tent, outdoor kitchen area with stoves, tables and lamps and a toilet. Also in the morning there we woke up to a beautiful foggy sunrise. 

Being in Australia we pretty paranoid with the creatures living there. Expecially in the night. Checking every spot for spiders. Gladly didn’t see any of them there. Maybe beacause it was freezing there in the night. Temperature might gone to zero at some point beacause on the morning the ground was in frost. Altough we herd a lot of noise in bushes next to our tent. There might have been somekind of rats or opussoms living there.

When we arrived to Springbrook first we went hiking in the National park. We took a 4 hour Twin falls track that went under and above the cliffs passing through a couple of waterfalls on the way. In there we was the first time we encountered a kangaroos. Walking under the cliff we could only hear them jumping in the bushes but on later on one past us just couple of meters away.

Near the National park there was also a place called Natural Bridge. From about a one kilometer from the parking there is cave where hundreds of glowworms breed. ( Sorry there is no decent pictures of them) 

After Springbrook we headed to the Glass House Mountains National Park. It was about two hour drive and on the way we stopped to eat in this charming little town called Beerburrum. We also stopped there to search information where could we camp the next night. We did not have any Internet and in Australia you need it to book your camping permits. We had bought a local sim for some data but at first couldn’t activate it. In the end we managed to do that at the top of Ngungun mountain, where the connection was surprisingly good.

We found and booked a spot on Cooching Creek Campground that was located on a river and accomodated also loads of local birdlife. Here we saw our first kookaburra, up close and personal . There were also butcher birds, bush turkeys, noisy miners and a bunch of the birds we did not recognize. ( Here we noticed that there were spiders all around the bushes.)