A weekend in the Bunyas.
So…the weekend before last we went on a sour of the moment camping trip to the Bunya Mountains. It is about a four drive from where we live. We set off on the Friday afternoon and got there after dark and set up our tent at Dandabah camping area. It wasn’t our first time here as we had stayed here years before in 2013 during the Christmas holidays.
We woke on the Saturday to a very misty morning. The ranger came to check on us and siad it would probably burn off, which it did. We spent Saturday walking in the rainforest among the great Bunya pines. Aboriginal mobs would travel for miles in years past to gather here, collect the bunya nuts and feast.
We did the Pine Gorge Lookout walk in the morning then the circuit out to Paradise and Barker Creek Lookout in the afternoon. At sunset we climbed Mount Kiangarow but the sun was setting too far north to see it from there so we went to try and catch it at Koondaii lookout but there was too much cloud on the horizon.
We were wakened in the early hours of Sunday morning to the sound of a dingo howling in the forest. It was a very spooky sound as it echoed amongst the trees and we could here another calling further away in reply. Will got up and managed to get a recording of it. That Sunday morning was the midwinter solstice here.
We packed up and headed home but were glad we had made the effort to go. Walking in the forest and hearing the dingo in the night had just been quite magical!
