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On our way to Noosa we stopped off at the Glasshouse Mountains. It was a very beautiful scene with the mountains and a huge forest. The mountains were named by Captain Cook who thought they looked like waste from glass furnaces from his home town in Yorkshire. But the Aboriginals thought that the mountains represented a mother, father and their children.
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I love the Glasshouse Mountains.
My dad and stepmother lived there right under Mount Coonowrin.
Big spiders, lots of cane toads, deafening dawn chorus, tropical rain storms -- in yer face NATURE!
From Cook's journal, May 17, 1770: '... this place may always be found by 3 Hills which lay to the Northward of it in the Latitude of 26 degrees 53 minutes South. These hills lay but a little way inland, and not far from Each other; they are very remarkable on account of their Singular form of Elivation, which very much resembles Glass Houses, which occasioned my giving them that Name. The Northermost of the 3 is the highest and largest. There are likewise several other peaked hills inland to the Northward of these, but they are not near so remarkable.'
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