Long term travelling is now a reality and we are planning a number of trips this year with the latter trip extending to March 2023.

A trip to the Lamington National Park was a wonderful time to catch up with immediate family before embarking on our travels. What a wonderful place, relaxing in the rainforest in comfort with dear and close family with plenty of visits from forest birdlife all thanks to generous colleagues.

We have been visiting Lamington NP since 1985, its a place I dreamed of visiting after reading the book Green Mountains, written by Bernard O’Reilly and given to me by my mum and her dad when I was at primary school. Growing up in the driest state in the driest inhabited continent, the descriptions of green tall forests and waterfalls was fascinating. It has become a generational habitually frequented place for exploration and relaxation.

Green Mountains is about O’Reilly’s discovery of the 1937 crash site in Lamington National Park of a Stinson Model A airplane, the VH-UHH Brisbane, and the organisation of rescue crews that retrieved the survivors. Using his bushcraft and geographical knowledge, as well as inferring from the plane’s filed flight plan, he came upon two survivors and the wreckage of the aircraft in the extremely rugged and mountainous rainforest terrain. He then trekked 26 kilometres through the same difficult terrain to get help and return the next day with rescuers. The rescue operation gained national headlines with reports broadcast live on the radio.