When on a roadtrip north of the Sunshine Coast, we often drive one way along the A1 Bruce Highway and the other way via the A3 Burnett Highway. The A3 is a little longer but it is good country driving and we like to visit Mount Scoria National Park and Cania Gorge National Park along the way.
If you are a day visitor, the first car park as you enter Cania Gorge National Park is a good place to start the Big Foot walk and the Fern Tree Pool and Giants Chair Circuit. However, if you are staying at the Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat it is convenient to walk directly from the entry near the office.
Big Foot Walk from Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat, Grade 3, about 100 m return.
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| Big Foot |
The second car park after entering the national park is the main car park and picnic area. Here you will find good information signs about the walks and local wildlife and plants. The picnic area is alongside Three Moon Creek and has toilets, sheltered tables and barbecues. There is a sign-posted section for caravan parking.
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| Sunskink Lampropholis |
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| Evening Brown Butterfly |
Dripping Rock and The Overhand, Grade 3, 3.2 km return.
This was the driest that we have ever seen Cania gorge. Dripping Rock was still dripping but the water level was so low under Hanging Rock that we were able to easily walk further under it.
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| Dripping Rock |
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| Aboriginal freehand art. |
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| Beautiful pigments in the rock. |
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| Sandstone cliffs in Cania Gorge. |
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| The Overhang. |
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| Low water level at The Overhang. |
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| Dragon Cave |
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| View from the Dragon Cave. |
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| Silver Elkhorns |
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| Bloodstone Cave. |
Wildlife seen by us on this trip: Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Whiptail Wallaby, Sugar Glider, Cattle, Sunskink: Lampropholis. Butterflies: Large Grass Yellow, Monarch, Common Brown. Birds: Grey-crowned Babbler, Australian Brush Turkey, Grey Butcherbird, Pied Butcherbird, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Galah, Little Black Cormorant, Little Pied Cormorant, Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Pied Currawong, Torresian Crow, Grey Fantail, Red-browed Finch, Leaden Flycatcher, White-faced Heron, Blue-faced Honeyeater, Lewin's Honeyeater, White-throated Honeyeater, White-naped Honeyeater, Laughing Kookaburra, Rainbow Lorikeet, Australian Magpie, Noisy Miner, Striated Pardalote, Pheasant Coucal, Eastern Yellow Robin, Pale-headed Rosella, Rainbow Bee-eater, White-browed Scrubwren, Large-billed Scrubwren, Little Shrike-thrush, Silvereye, White-headed Varied Sittella, Welcome Swallow, Dusky Moorhen, White-throated Treecreeper, Eastern Whipbird, Golden Whistler, Rufous Whistler, Willie Wagtail. Heard: Tawny Frogmouth.
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