FNQ Tablelands

Driving out of Cairns on our way to the Tablelands

 

Heading over the Great dividing range

Great Drive but pretty slow going

Had some fantastic views

on our way down towards Yungaburra Historical Village

 Yungaburra Hotel, takes up a whole block of the town

Our New Home for a week or so, Bonodio RV and Nature Park

10 minutes past Yungaburra and 15 min before Atherton

Campfire every night for Happy Hour. Usually happy hour is 5 to 6, but at this place it starts at 4.00 and goes till 9.00, you Just have fit dinner in when you can.

Singalong at the Campfire

off down to the Barron River to Search for Platypus in the camp ground

looking..looking, they were a bit shy, but they were there

no problems finding possums though

on our way to Mareeba

Mareeba Heritage Museum

 

Just a Statue at the Museum

Granite Gorge near Mareeba

 

Wallaby in the Gorge

The Village of Kauri on the way to Tinaroo Dam Falls

Lake Tinaroo

and again

 

and again

Just a small FIG tree coming up  along the boardwalk

not too big, AY! as the Queenslanders would say

it was called the Curtain Figtree

 

 

 

Malanda Falls

Malanda Falls

Malanda Falls

Milaa Milaa Falls

Milaa Milaa Falls

Milaa Milaa Falls

 

Zillie Falls

Zillie Falls

Zillie Falls

Big tree on the way to Ellinja Falls

Ellinja Falls

Ellinja Falls

Ellinja Falls

Saw lots of falls on the waterfall trail drive. too many to post started to get confusing

Mamu Tropical Skywalk over and through rainforest

in the Wooroonooran National Park

view from elevated platform

View of Johnstone River from tower

100 steps to top

View of Johnstone River from tower

View of  from tower

Malanda Hotel reputed to be the Largest timber Pub in Australia

 

back at home for Happy hour and the campfire

Python on side of bank 

3-4 metres long 

me looking at the python, you can just see the water/dam through the trees,

I climbed down this bank to the dam two days earlier,

, I didn't do it again

Sharon's damper cooked in our new camp oven, bloody beautiful.

 

me helping put up a wind break around the campfire

 

Ron Bonadio, the owner carrying the rocks for the new campfire pit

 

 

 the wind break happened because we mentioned that the breeze and smoke coming through the campfire was annoying

feeding time for the possums in the camp kitchen, a nightly event

tripped and hit my head on a log, didn't spill a drop, they put low voltage lights on the new wall in the campfire area

 

 

fishing in the Barron river which borders the camp

I caught a Black Bream, too small to keep but fun catching it,

the other guy caught 2 catfish, good size but threw them back too, a great afternoon was had

platypus kept coming up to tease us

pademelon (small wallaby, very small) feeding just down from our van

curtain fig tree in the rain forest, 5 min walk from our van

 

camp kitchen and small "critters" feeding area at the back of the photo, walking track into rain forest behind the kitchen

 

Sadly driving away from this camp, very difficult for us to leave this little paradise of a place on the tablelands, not only a paradise but it was so central to everything you needed to  see around the tablelands, not going to forget this.

 

Township of  Ravenshoe one of the last towns we saw on the way out of the tablelands,

On our way to Chaters Towers and Hughendon on The Great Dividing Range