Feathers & Friends

With the car cleaned, my hair done, supplies renewed and some retail therapy, we left Mareeba and headed past Mt Molloy and Julatten to this beautiful place. It’s a privately owned property of some 43 acres and the minute you turn into the drive way, you know it’s going to be something special. The avenue of palms and bamboo, welcome you to an oasis of trees, shrubs and lovely mown grass.
We are set up in a lovely spot with plenty of room and are quite private.

You can’t leave any doors open however, as the resident chooks will hop in - plus, if you’re eating a roll, they might pinch it - as Darryl found out! 

                                        

Birds are everywhere and you can imagine the photographing that is going on. The whole area is now known for bird watching so we stumbled across just what we love. The variety of plants make me very envious - the stag and elk horns are everywhere (you’d love them Dennis) but prettiest of all must be red and blue jade plants.

     
We took a local map and toured around up to Mt Lewis - some 1000 metres elevation and it was the most picturesque trip - albeit on a very narrow, windy and dusty road. Now the car is dusty again! We were strolling along this walkway from a bird hide when we nearly trod on this fellow!! We have found out since that he’s a harmless tree snake - but he still gave us a scare. 

                                        
We called into a barramundi farm and purchased some lovely fillets plus packs of home made spring rolls! They’ll have to be good to beat Flo’s!   This area has a chequered history with agriculture, mining and logging but is now more touristy. We’re only 33km from a Port Douglas and 21km from Mossman so it’s in a great location as a base. This is an old bricked in boiler for the saw milling operation in Mt Molloy.

                                                  
We are very fortunate that we can store our van here whilst we are at Port Douglas so we won’t have to worry about dragging it up and down the mountains and we’ll know it’s safe. So the next leg of our journey will be living it up in Port Douglas! It sounds as if things are improving down south so hope the trend keeps going that way. We hope we’ll be able to visit you all one day!  Lots of love from Marg & Darryl ❌❌❌❌