During our recent trip to Queensland we did some bush camping at Lamington. We came across this guy as we were hiking. It was amazing. Once we had our poto shoot, we kindly put him down and continued on our way, leaving him unharmed.

KP located within 500m of the CBD! Facilities include free BBQs, picnic tables, toilets, parking and top rope setup bollards!

....and the whole time I was wondering where the crux was....

On her first trip outdoors in almost eight months, Newbie suns herself on some very warm Australian rock and wonders why she's still climbing on top-rope. Honestly, don't most pros only climb every six months?!?!?

Showing off as usual, Kachoong makes the sharp end look easy....when you've been climbing for a hundred years, I suppose it is...

Basking in the afternoon sun on The Bees Knees (16) in the heart of Brisbane.

Grant Edsner makes his way easily up Date Anatomy (12) on a glorious Saturday afternoon along the Brisbane River.

Kachoong (on The Bee's Knees 16) and Phil Box (on The Duck's Nuts 14) climb parallel routes at Kangaroo Point on a beautiful sunny afternoon. Phil of course is the bare foot master.

Unknown climber risks vegetated impaling on EGO grade 23 (5.11c) Kangaroo Point, Australia. Photo Neil Monteith FujiProvia

Chrisco on the crux of the intermediate classic, Halva (16 or 5.7) at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane city. Large lights installed along the cliff base allow night climbing. Photo: Lee Skidmore, Canon EOS300D Digital SLR.

We spent a whole week on a course using this Ozpod and other devices which can be rigged for rescue or industrial ropes rigging. I had soooo much fun on this course.

This pic shows the one of the guy ropes anchoring the Ozpod. The interesting thing about this setup is that the ascender will shred the sheath at around 900kgs but because the anchor is set up as a sling it will hold 1800kgs as there are two ropes going to the Ozpod from a tree anchor.

This pic shows several setups. On the right is another type of rigging guy. This guy will only hold 900kgs before the ascender shreads the sheath. We also have attached to the head of the Ozpod going from right to left a fixed line, a redirected line through a pulley and lastly a rebelayed line. Not to mention Cameron very safely ensconced on his industrial double rope system and you`ll notice that he is using a locked off No Worries descender on one rope and an SRT ascender as a backup on the other rope.

This pic shows the SRT No Worries descender device set as a reversible brake on the main abseil line. This device will limit shock load on a static rope to around 800kgs.

This pic demonstrates 3 different rope setups. From right to left we have a fixed line then a redirection and then lastly a rebelay.

This pic demonstrates a locked off No Worries SRT descender and a rope grab back up to an independant rope.

This pic shows the Kong KISA friction plate being used as a shock load limiting device for the back up ascender. The SRT No Worries also has shock load limitting abilities. The Kong Kisa in this configuration will slide at around 450 kgs and the No Worries SRT descender will unload and slide down the rope at 800kgs thus these two systems will limit the potential for a rope to have it`s sheath shred.

Here we have a 7 to 1 pre rigged haul system or jigger set up.

This demonstrates an SRT No Worries descender being used as a belay device whilst the rope is being hauled through a 7 to 1 Trac haul system. The haul system pulls the load up and the No Worries as used here belays the rope. The Trac haul also has a Kong KISA load limiting device set up on it so as eliminate the potential of failure on this rope due to shock load.

City workers set up top-ropes along the main wall of Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. Photo Marten Blumen

Kangaroo Point is THE inner city crag. The city council has installed lights and bollards so one can climb to 3am! Photo Marten Blumen

This is my local crag. It was taken a little while ago now. It's right in the middle of the Brisbane CBD. Jertsky and I are just about to rap down KP(I'm the one on the right). Not much of a climbing shot, but it's a nice view of my city.

This is one of my climbing mates (Crumpy) at the crux of a climb at Kangaroo point (Brisbane, Australia). It's an 18(5.10a) I think. (can you remember Crumpy?)

Adam Donohue styles this inner-city test piece. Located only 100m from Brisbane's CBD, this cliff is host to more than 150 bolted routes. Photo Neil Monteith 35mm print

Mark Bennet does the classic problem at Brisbane's inner city crag. Photo Neil Monteith 35mm Print