Mount Beerwah and Mount Coonowrin

These are two of the Glasshouse Mountains north of Brisbane, Australia, so named by Captain Cook who fancied a resemblance to the glasshouses he had known in England (he had been away for a very long time, and that perhaps explains the fact that he gave them this name). Each of the individual peaks has a native Australian name, in this case Mount Coonowrin, the nearest of the two and Mount Beerwah, the further peak. We climbed a third peak yesterday, June 20th, and this photo was taken from that peak, named Mount Ngun Ngun. All of the Glasshouse Mountains are volcanic plugs whose surroundings have eroded away.