We had our longest journey for a while, travelling a whole 277kms from Bowen to the Paluma National Park. We’re teaching Mark & Kerri about morning tea stops at 10.30, about looking for opportunities to cut firewood and Mark is learning to increase his beer consumption! At the same time, Mark & Kerri are teaching us all different board games - and we’ve found out Mark can fix everything! We did notice smoke in the mountains along the way and hoped it was a controlled burn off.
We camped at the Big Crystal campground in the National Park, even though we were once again disappointed with road and walk closures. We’ve found all along that the rains earlier on in the year here in Queensland, created havoc with rock slides and debris and we’ve come across these signs often. It’s disappointing but we can’t complain as we could be travelling around the flooded NSW areas.
The campground was very pretty but we learned very early that the picturesque settings under trees is not good for solar and very much time was spent moving solar panels around trying to capture a wee bit of sunshine. We could walk to Paradise Pool and some of us braved the cooler water for a refreshing swim.
There were lots of brush turkeys around and we had to ensure our rubbish bags were not within their reach. Our days were relaxed and we enjoyed reading, pottering around, moving solar panels and of course the board games. We were very fortunate to be spoilt by afternoon tea from the Dennis kitchen.
After 3 days of poor sunlight we awoke to cloudy drizzly weather this morning so a decision was made to move to a caravan park in Ingham to power up! Along the way we called at the Jourama Falls campground where we’re supposed to be and what a beautiful spot it is! We had morning tea there and walked as far as we could to a beautiful swimming spot.
They have a stay 4 pay 3 nights deal here at this nice little caravan park, so we’ll use this as a base to sightsee around the area. We hope everyone is well and not too cold. From tropical Ingham, love from us travellers. ❌❌❌❌❌❌
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