After nearly four months adventurising around Australia, Malte returned to Larnook in early May. In preparation, Steve and I stocked up on macadamia butter, one of Malte's staples. He and I the ascended Wollumbin. Well not straight away, of course.
It was a perfect day for the climb which took us about 2 hours.
The view from the summit is spectacular, with the clear conditions allowing us to see all the way up to Brisbane (although you won't see Brisbane in this pic, it is taken looking east). And it's not at the summit.
Malte told me that the ecological knowledge he had picked up from his first stay at Larnook enabled him to tell his various travelling companions about aspects of Australian nature. He had told the story of the strangler fig many times apparently. So it's only fitting he should pose next to this one on Wollumbin. 'You are witnessing the slow death of a fine tree....'
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