Today we went for a drive to the Glass House Mountains about 45 minutes from Morayfield. Captain Cook "discovered" and then named the mountains. From the look-out point I took these pictures of the mountains. The mountains pictured here I believe are Mount Beerwah and Mount Tibrogargan.We then drove to another look-out point and I took pictures of the surrounding rainforest and countryside. In these pictures you can just see several small farms with cows. From these look-outs we drove through plantations of pineapple, avacados, and macademia nuts. As some of you may know, pineapples don't grow on trees like coconuts (as I previously believed) but on short, little scrubby bushes. I stand corrected.
To round off our Australian wine tasting experience we stopped in for a pre-lunch wine tasting at the Maleny Mountain Winery. As grapes do not grow well near the Australian coast in northern Queensland, most of the grapes for this winery are grown in New South Wales and then shipped to the winery. The varietal that does grow well in this rainforest region is the chambourcin grape. We bought a bottle of white wine for dinner since Blayne is making his traditional spicy Thai soup and green chicken and chick pea curries.
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