{"id":335,"date":"2013-01-11T06:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T22:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=335"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:17:47","slug":"crikey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/01\/11\/crikey\/","title":{"rendered":"Crikey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had one last night to camp before arriving in Brisbane to visit some friends and see the city. The area I camped in was quite beautiful, but the campground was another state forest full of bogans. After pitching my tent in what appeared to be a deserted campground, I ventured off to explore some of the sites in the area, including The Glasshouse Mountains and The Australia Zoo. <\/p>\n

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Glass House Mountains National Park near Brisbane, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glass House Mountains National Park near Brisbane, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Glasshouse Mountains were really quite interesting, since they were actually volcanic plugs that were once below the earth’s surface but were not sticking up as mountains because of the erosion of the surrounding rock. There was a series of them in a line that James Cook spotted and named while exploring the area.<\/p>\n

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Glass House Mountains National Park near Brisbane, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glass House Mountains National Park near Brisbane, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glass House Mountains National Park near Brisbane, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glass House Mountains National Park near Brisbane, Queensland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Glass House Mountains National Park Hike<\/strong>
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