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TAKE THE SCENIC ROUTE

WHEN I WAS a child our family often visited the Scenic Rim en-route to my grandparents’ farm near Warwick. As we’d cross Cunninghams Gap in Main Range National Park, Mum would remind us to wind down the windows to listen to the metallic tink of the bellbirds hidden among eucalypts, ferns and vines. Part of the Great Dividing Range, Main Range overlooks the patchwork farmland of Fassifern Valley, Lake Moogerah and a scattering of volcanic peaks —

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