While at Woodford, Scott, Tom and myself made a trip up the nearby Mt Beerwah. It’s the plug from an extinct volcano and it’s seriously steep, rising 500 meters from the surrounding plane at about a 40 degree angle.

Scott and I climbed it last Woodford, but this year we wanted to be on top for dawn. So after Missy Higgins & The Waifs finished we got an early night, in bed about 1am. 2 hours later, at 3 am, we got up again and headed off in the car. Yawn!

We really should have got up at 2:30am, in the end we hit the top only just before the sun rose. Scott made it up in about 25 minutes flat, while Tom and I strolled up in 30 minutes. The record is apparently 39 minutes up and down.

Afterward we got a tip-off that Kondalilla falls was a nice swimming hole, so we headed there (sort of) on the way back to Woodford.

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