Mt Beerwah is located in Jinibara Country on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is the highest of the volcanic plugs formed around 25 million years ago.
Aboriginal legend tells us that Mt Beerwah was the pregnant mother of the Glasshouse Mountains group and mother of all surrounding mountains.
The Glasshouse Mountains were named by James Cook on his 1770 voyage to Australia.
I had been to the top of Mt Beerwah probably 30 years ago when I was living on the Sunshine Coast, but I couldn't really remember much of it.
But there were plenty of warnings; it is classed as a pretty serious hike (a "summit" actually) with a fair bit of rock scrambling. It's not for the faint-hearted.
We started our hike from about 150m above sea level and got to about 550m at the very top of Beerwah. This 400m elevation gain over just 2 km of distance took us an 1 hour 20 minutes, which speaks to how hard the summit was! We had lots a breaks to enjoy the views, have rest stops for our strongly beating hearts and to give way to others going up or down around us.