Australia Zoo is set on the edge of the Glasshouse mountain range, so after we left the zoo we drove up to one of the lookouts.
The mountains were named by Captain Cook, though nobody's sure exactly why he chose the name (the theory goes they reminded him of glass furnaces in Yorkshire, though I'm not sure I see the similarity).
The last photo shows a Jacaranda tree, which isn't native to this country but comes from South America. They're lovely and they're blooming all over the place in the hinterland at the moment.
Anyway, the mountains are a bit weird-looking, until you realise they're actually the lava plugs from the centre of a series of volcanoes. The volcanoes themselves have been weathered away, leaving the solid rock that used to be at the centre, the lava that came up from the earth.
Good aren't they?
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