Glasshouse Mountains or Glass House Mountains
Glasshouse Mountains (or Glass House Mountains, you'll see both spellings) National Park is a day trip from Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast hinterland behind Noosa. There are other attractions in the area, such as the Crocodile Hunter's Australia Zoo, which is also a full day's visit.
Another landmark to look out for, though not in the same category, in the Big Pineapple near Nambour. The Big Pineapple continues a tradition of 'big' folk art that spans the English-speaking world -- outside England, or Britain in general. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA, all have a long tradition of this kind of tourist attraction.
The mountains are old volcano plugs from which the overlying rock and earth has eroded away. They got their modern name from Captain Cook who saw them from his ship while surveying the coastal seas during his voyages of discovery. He thought they looked like the glass furnaces he saw back home in his native Yorkshire.
The Aboriginal population have a far more romantic names for the mountains and imbue them with myths and legends from their past, as peoples everywhere do about their own homelands.
The roads wind between the mountains, zig-zagging up to lookouts before plunging back down into the valleys and the pleasant farmlands and hamlets they support -- one of which is the town of 'Glass House Mountains'.
These two mountains are known as 'the Twins', in English, and Tunbubudula in the local Aboriginal language. Behind them to the right, and farther away, is Mt Miketeebumulgrai.
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