Inland

In the past three days Alex and I went away from Brisbane, inland, for a bit of quiet countryside and nature. We visited Lamington National Park at Binna Burra (mountainous area, nice walk with caves and lots of big strangler fig trees). The photo shows the view from Bellbird Lookout.

Yesterday we drove by Lake Wivenhoe (a big artificial water reservoir west of Brisbane, north of Ipswitch). It has a surface area of more than 100 km².

Today we were at Crows Nest National Park. We were lucky enough to spot a Rock-wallaby! This is a kind of very small (50-60 cm) kangaroo that lives in rocky areas. They are shy, but like to watch humans from a safe distance. This one was just 6 metres away and observed us with interest, keeping very still.

Here is a close-up photo of the Rock-wallaby. It reminds me of a character in the Moomins series (Sniff, the leftmost one here).

Oh, and we cooked one of the sweet potatoes and it was *purple*. Very unusual colour for a soup. I couldn't take a photo, but if you want an idea how a cooked purple sweet potatoe looks, look here.