Yaroomba: beautiful boardwalks and scary snakes!

 

Yaroomba is the suburb between Mt Coolum and Coolum Beach. It's got a great network of bush tracks through beachside forest, often involving fabulously engineered boardwalks. It's got Clive Palmer's amazing resort too, with fine golf course but no longer with dinosaurs. Enough of Clive though.

 

 

It's also got the Yaroomba Bushland Park, with a lovely little circuit walk through a fine patch of bush. There's a surprise lurking though. Look  at this fellow I came across! It's clearly a Jungle Carpet Python! Could probably swallow me whole!

 

There again, a closer inspection reveals the cracks on his face. He's a wooden Jungle Carpet Python! How disappointing.

Here's Mount Coolum, from one of the Yaroomba boardwalks.

 

And here's the beach

Carpeted!

 

Queensland is rather well known for its carpet pythons, and I met my own the other day while checking out real estate.

There's a somewhat interesting block of land for sale in Buderim. I went up there for another look, especially at some of those interesting mountains to the north and west.

And right next door, under what is probably its favoured mango tree home, was a magnificent carpet python. What an asset to the neighbourhood that would be!