Saturday 13th June
A very damp night and quite a cool one. 12 deg this morning. Had to wait until the sun came up so we could dry out the canvas over the beds. It wasn’t until 10 am that we started to pack up, meanwhile we chatted to Craig the owner of the Kennedy shop who gave us some places that we should make sure we visit. So we heeded his advice and decided to go up into the hills but first of all drive into Mission Beach to have another look around. This is the main departure point for Dunk Island. Beautiful beaches and a great little shopping centre with numerous small bars and cafes. Had our lunch sitting on the beach and then set out for Ravenshoe which boasts as having the highest bitumen road in Queensland and the highest point at 860 mts above sea level, which made it much cooler. On the drive here we saw all sorts of fruit being grown in this area, bananas, paw paw, mandarins, mangoes, lychees, tomatoes etc.etc. With the sugar mills working and the cane cutting being started in most of the fields. Soon it will be a very busy place with trains and double b's all over the place.
Visited Murray Falls, Murray Upper National Park. Rainforested Mountains. We walked through the rainforest to view the waterfalls and then a 60 min walk through the rainforest for the views across the waterfalls. On then to Millaa Millaa (Many waters in aboriginal language) where we drove into a caravan park for the night as there were many more places we want to visit tomorrow. (We would have to get to leave Ravenshoe for tomorrow as it was now getting late) .On checking in with the office they gave us an information sheet with 6/7 drives throughout the area visiting all the waterfalls and great walks. Before dinner and getting dark we drove into the little town past the main street looking at the local sculptures and reading its historyand then on through to the Millaa Millaa falls. Here they say you can swim,with no stingers or crocodiles in the water. We didn't see any turtles or catfish either or the tree kangaroos or the platypuses. Getting dark now so we headed for base and our evening meal and to listen to the Manly Panthers match on the radio.
A very damp night and quite a cool one. 12 deg this morning. Had to wait until the sun came up so we could dry out the canvas over the beds. It wasn’t until 10 am that we started to pack up, meanwhile we chatted to Craig the owner of the Kennedy shop who gave us some places that we should make sure we visit. So we heeded his advice and decided to go up into the hills but first of all drive into Mission Beach to have another look around. This is the main departure point for Dunk Island. Beautiful beaches and a great little shopping centre with numerous small bars and cafes. Had our lunch sitting on the beach and then set out for Ravenshoe which boasts as having the highest bitumen road in Queensland and the highest point at 860 mts above sea level, which made it much cooler. On the drive here we saw all sorts of fruit being grown in this area, bananas, paw paw, mandarins, mangoes, lychees, tomatoes etc.etc. With the sugar mills working and the cane cutting being started in most of the fields. Soon it will be a very busy place with trains and double b's all over the place.
Visited Murray Falls, Murray Upper National Park. Rainforested Mountains. We walked through the rainforest to view the waterfalls and then a 60 min walk through the rainforest for the views across the waterfalls. On then to Millaa Millaa (Many waters in aboriginal language) where we drove into a caravan park for the night as there were many more places we want to visit tomorrow. (We would have to get to leave Ravenshoe for tomorrow as it was now getting late) .On checking in with the office they gave us an information sheet with 6/7 drives throughout the area visiting all the waterfalls and great walks. Before dinner and getting dark we drove into the little town past the main street looking at the local sculptures and reading its historyand then on through to the Millaa Millaa falls. Here they say you can swim,with no stingers or crocodiles in the water. We didn't see any turtles or catfish either or the tree kangaroos or the platypuses. Getting dark now so we headed for base and our evening meal and to listen to the Manly Panthers match on the radio.
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