Name: Girraween Long weekend
Start: 2024-10-05T15:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-07T17:00:00+10:00

*Yes, it is a long way in advance! but we'll need to get in quick with booking campsites!*
A weekend of camping, walks and hanging out in the beautiful Girraween National Park near Stanthorpe. It will be a good time of year to go with lots of spring flowers out but hopefully not too hot for walking. There’s a range of easy to moderate walks to do - the one up the Pyramid is a must!

Girraween National Park boasts massive granite outcrops, balancing boulders, clear running streams and spectacular wildflowers in spring.
Golden wattles, yellow, red and purple pea flowers, dainty orchids and flannel flowers grow amid forests of red-gum, stringybark and blackbutt. Frogs, lizards and snakes rustle among the leaf litter. Brilliant turquoise parrots, yellow-tufted honeyeaters and superb fairy-wrens splash the granite-strewn countryside with colour, while red-necked wallabies, brush-tailed possums and spiny echidnas weave their way through the wonders of the woodland.

Suggested Plan:
SAT:
Drive to location (3hr from Brisbane)
maybe a short walk in the afternoon

SUN:
9am The Sphinx and Turtle Rock (Classes 3 and 4)
Distance: 7.4 km Time: 3–4 hours return
Details: Branch off before Castle Rock and take an easy walk along a ridge top with some granite slabs. The Sphinx is a granite pinnacle bearing a large balancing tor, while Turtle Rock is a large granite monolith resembling a turtle's back.

MON:
9am The Pyramid (Classes 3 and 4) Distance: 3.6 km Time: 1.5–2 hours return
If the climb doesn't take your breath away, views of Balancing Rock, the Second Pyramid and over Girraween National Park will. Leave the Granite Arch track and weave steadily uphill through eucalypt forests, past rocky outcrops and grassy flats to the base of this massive granite dome. A good level of fitness is required to make the climb up The Pyramid as the ascent of the exposed rock face is steep and may be tiring. Take your time to rest and enjoy the view.

OPTION Lunch at a winery or somewhere in Stanthorpe
Return drive in pm

Campsite bookings $7.25/night/person - unpowered sites only, there are no showers there anymore
https://qpws.usedirect.com/qpws/
**Kambuwal** camping site (or Castle Rock if that is booked out/
\*\*it is a long weekend so this will book out quickly, you can book from 7th July\*\*

Getting there:
Girraween is situated approximately 260 km by road south-west of Brisbane. To reach the park, turn off the New England Highway 26 km south of Stanthorpe or 30 km north of Tenterfield. The winding bitumen road continues a further 9 km east through the Wyberba Valley to the park information centre.

if you are just coming for one of the walks, leave a comment and meet us at the walk start at the time

PS. bring your bathers if it looks like it's going to be warm - there are swimming holes in the creek near the campsite :)

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