Slept in a little on Saturday morning but was up, packed and driving out around 8:30 am. I headed north to Nerang and turned off the highway towards Canungra. A quick stop at the pie shop in Canungra for a sausage roll and iced coffee and then it was off towards Lamington national park and O'Reillys.
There was lots of damage to the road in the aftermath of the latest heavy rain from the remnants of cyclone Debbie. The road is normally pretty narrow and windy but it became even narrower as land slips had taken away bits from each side of the road. No real dramas just a slower than normal trip. Just before O'Reillys I turned off onto Duck Creek road and followed it until the John Shepard Lookout where it was closed, also due to damage from the cyclone.
However, there is a smallish flat spot to the right just above the lookout and this was where Shane had set up camp. I parked the car and joined Shane around the camp fire which was struggling a bit because the wood was quite wet from rain a couple of days earlier, however a little diesel fixed this. 🔥🔥🔥. After a bit of lunch I got Blute setup on a nice flat spot and we spent the afternoon chatting around the fire.
Just before sunset Shane got his camera out and got some nice photos as the sun quickly went down behind the hills, although the colour in the sky lasted a almost an hour.
Then it was dinner time followed by more chatting around the fire before finally heading off to bed as the temperature got down below 10 degrees. Although chilly overnight I don't think it got below 5 or 6 degrees. We slept in a bit in the morning before Shane kick started the fire again and we had some coffee to wake up a bit. After breakfast we had a lazy morning around the fire before packing up and heading up to O'Reillys for a quick lunch. The parking up there was crazy. The trip down the hill was a bit more tricky as there was a lot more traffic heading up the hill but I eventually made it back to Canungra and then had a pretty good run back to Nerang and then home at around 2:30.
