Discovering a lookout, which afforded a panoramic view across a wide expanse of trees and mountains to the distant coast beyond, was just the balm I needed after a draining week. From my spot on high, I breathed in not only the breathtaking view but also the fresh air and the quiet and nature's soothing colours from the Glasshouse Mountains Lookout.
An impressive view ... all the way to the coast!
This expansive view from the lookout takes in native bushland and pine plantations and is punctuated by the craggy peaks of the Sunshine Coast hinterland's iconic Glasshouse Mountains. Here are a few of those mountains:
Mt. Tibrogargan (364m) & Mt. Tibberoowuccu (220m)
Tunbubudula or "The Twins" (338m/294m)
Mt. Coonowrin (377m)
The landscape I looked out across, and those beautiful colours, were there too in the gorgeous mosaics that I found set into the lookout's path. Here is Mt. Coonowrin and Mt. Beerwah represented in tiles.
Most beautiful mountain mosaic.
While these mountain peaks were named collectively as the "Glasshouse Mountains" by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, as they reminded him of glass factory furnaces, back in England, they were (and still are) of very special significance to the local indigenous peoples long before then. In their ancient Dreamtime story, retold here, these glasshouse peaks are members of one family. Woven into their words are how particular features of these mountains and the surrounding land, from which they rise up, came to be.
Discovering this lookout afforded me a truly wonderful view, not only of the mountains but also into their history too.
Meg
p.s. Australia's country music legend, Slim Dusty, wrote this song that also records the indigenous story of these Glasshouse Mountains.
Discovering this lookout afforded me a truly wonderful view, not only of the mountains but also into their history too.
Meg
p.s. Australia's country music legend, Slim Dusty, wrote this song that also records the indigenous story of these Glasshouse Mountains.
