Numinbah Valley, Gold Coast, Australia

One day during our holiday we took a drive out to Numinbah Valley. To our surprise, we passed a field of highland cows — those gorgeous shaggy cows from Scotland! Who'd have thought highland cows would adapt to Australia? Granted we saw them in winter when it averaged 18 to 20c during the day (our coldest winter on record!), but they're there in summer as well when the average temperature is 35 to 40c! Crazy!

Anyway, we stopped to take some photos and say hello and then drove on for about ten minutes to do a 4km walk through a subtropical rainforest. Our destination on this walk was the Springbrook Natural Bridge — a waterfall that flows through a glow worm cave that has eroded over the centuries to form what looks like a bridge.

Cows and a gumtree

Grazing

Resting

Aussie highland cows

Highlanders

Mother and calf

Munch munch

Hello there!

Footbridge near the start of the rainforest walk

Looking up

Epiphytes

A hidden oasis — the Springbrook Natural Bridge

Shower, anyone?

In the glow worm cave where the Natural Bridge is

In the cave, looking left

Yves in front of the roots of a very large tree