Booloumba

Christmas night and Boxing Day my family and I went camping at Booloumba. It's this really pretty spot just under an hour from where I live. The last few months have been pretty dry which meant the creek bed was also on the dry side but there were still a few little pockets where we could go swimming in and they were so beautiful!! We checked out Booloumba falls, went on a few walks and did some light painting at night (I'm going to do a seperate post for those photos though!).

The giant inflatable pretzel my cousin got me for Christmas definitely came to good use 

Unfortunately the hikes meant leeches - gross! It was just last year that I had my first leech experience so definitely a leech newbie but after having to pick off 5 during this trip, I'm now slightly less grossed out by them (only slightly!)

My little bro, J took that photo above, I think he has a really good eye for photography. By the way that's the strangler cairn which we last visited here.

People are good scales to show off impressive nature :)

I'm such a nerd but I honestly get a little excited learning new nature facts, this time we learned that hoop pines are named such because their barks falls off in hoops

And piccabeen trees are called such because their leaves make nice bowls to transport berries in and yup we demonstrated this above *nerd alert*

That fungi above was so cool with it's cup shape!

And then Ben pointed in the direction of all these pink flowers scattered on the forest floor, it was sooooo beautiful *gasp*

So pretty!

I'll be back tomorrow to share the light painting photos we did in that very creek bed above :)