They were great company and we enjoyed chatting to them. If you ever see a rig like this on the road you’ll know it’s Roy! This station stay also run a lovely cafe, serving breakfast, coffee, homemade cakes, lunch and Saturday night pizzas. We indulged a little with coffee and cake, the most delicious pizzas and eggs Benedict for one breakfast. The host is a very good cook! We enjoyed the walking track around the dams, spotting more birds for Darryl to photograph.
We walked around the crater of the Kalkani extinct volcanoe and saw little wallabies and had a great view of the surrounding area.
The tour of the lava tubes at the Undara Volcanic National Park was very well done and we found it very informative. It was lovely to walk through the remnant rain forest which featured this enormous old bottle tree.
The impact of the volcanic activity some 90,000 years ago, created these rivers of lava which spread out 160km. Now they are like caves - different from limestone caves as there’s no stalactites or stalagmites.
The colours in the rocks were amazing. Now we’ve left the Savannah grasslands and are having an overnight stay at Mareeba where we have a concrete slab and grass!! I’ve washed our floor mats and my walking shoes as they were pretty awful! The drive here through the range from Ravenshoe to Atherton was beautiful but I’d forgotten how narrow and windy the road was. Then we opened up to lovely green rolling hills - a sight to behold after such a lot of red, dry dirt!
We are pretty excited as very shortly I’m visiting a hair dresser and Darryl's visiting a car wash - neither of us can wait!! So the next blog will have us all clean and beautiful - well maybe? Trust you are all well and surviving the freezing weather. Love to all, ❌❌❌❌❌from Marg & Darryl.
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