Waterfalls

The day started out cloudy with a very heavy dew, it's dripping off everything. Feels like it has rained. We are in a caravan park in Innisfail for two nights. It's wedged between the Bruce Highway (which is very busy) and a big tidal river- the Johnstone. Luckily we are on the riverside so it's a bit quieter. Grey clouds overhead but the forecast is for about 26 and no rain.

My breaky included banana ( those yummy tiny ones taste delicious), some mango ( unfortunately it's not mango season but earlier I bought a tub of frozen mango at a roadside fruit seller and it's been delicious), passionfruit, yoghurt and muesli. Yummo!!

Innisfail is an interesting town. We could check out the CBD on Sunday afternoon. Always a good time as there is very little traffic. The city centre was destroyed by a cyclone in the early part of last century and rebuilt in the Art Deco style so the building are amazing. It's claim is that it is the Art Deco city of Australia. Of course Took more happy snaps.

At dusk yesterday we drove out to Flying Fish Point. Lots of people were fishing, locals I guess, ignoring plenty of warnings about crocs. And NO, not named after flying fish. Rather some explorers ship.

Today was about waterfalls and rainforest in the Wooroonooran National Park. The tourist brochure's description of "densely forested foothills, slopes and cloud-swathed peaks of mountains including Queensland's highest peak Bartle Frere" was pretty accurate. 

First stop was Mamu rainforest canopy walk. Our wonderings about how to do this with a dog in tow were answered by the welcoming aboriginal guide Phil at the gate who offered to watch Rifter while we went in. It was excellent and we spent over an hour walking about, some of it on a tree top walk. Then we talked bird watching with Phil who is a bit of an expert.

Then via a long steady climbing road we arrived at a small village called Millaa Millaa and bought delicious homemade soup and rolls for lunch. The clouds were still very low and it was misty, but not cold. The soup hit the spot.

On the way home we visited 4 different waterfalls. All lovely. I'll let the photos tell the story. Saw bush turkeys at a couple of spots and some other interesting birds but they are hard to spot in the dense forest. Also a bus load of backpackers trying out the falls...but that looked pretty chilly.

We passed a tea plantation and bought some of the produce, had Devonshire tea on the way home at a bio-dynamic dairy and bought home some yoghurt and milk. Then took a winding road...well more like a track, through banana plantations (on the hills) and more sugar cane on the flatter areas.