QUEENSLAND’S Scenic Rim Trail

et set to be transported to another world on the newly opened Scenic Rim Trail. Just 90 minutes west of Brisbane, this four-day walk in Queensland’s beautiful Main Range National Park blends both newly constructed and existing sections of track, and traverses a staggeringly diverse range of terrain and ecology. Commencing from dry eucalypt regrowth, you gain an escarpment that’s home to fuzzy rock wallabies and ancient grass trees, some hundreds of years old. When the trail dips away off the ridges, you enter the jungle—or more accurately a dense, tangled sub-tropical rainforest. Tree ferns, mosses, giant figs, cacophonous native birds, wildflowers, insects, and endless other natural