We are loving our life on the road and the slow pace we are travelling. We are enjoying the diverse scenery, villages and nature, as we travel through different regions. It is getting much warmer...time to take off the flannelette sheets!
River Crossings as we drove to the Gorge
Gorge walk through rainforest to waterfalls
Drive up Pioneer Valley to the small farming village of Eungella and the NP, the longest continual stretch of sub tropical rainforest in Australia. The road is really too steep and narrow for caravans, but some do and put their brakes and driving ability to the test
Cedar Walk through Rainforest to Sky Window Lookout 6km return
In the NP is the beautiful region of Broken River, a cafe, campgrounds and the home to many platypus, we were there at the optimal time between 3 and 7 pm, and had 5 sightings. Yay! (Wasn’t leaving until we spotted at least one)...from the walkway just under this bridge
You have to be very quiet
We had a visit with dear friends as they passed through the region on their way back to the Sunshine Coast, so sorry we didn’t get a photo, and had dinner with our neighbours at the Showgrounds.
Explored nearby Midge Point, where the local folk all own tractors to launch their boats, it was tremendously windy, too windy for the beach, so found a lot of quirky things around the town
A lady talked to us for ages and let us explore her garden, fairies, gnomes, turtles, frogs, and beautiful flowers and bromeliads
We camped for 3 nights over the weekend on the O’Connell River, and had a fish, bird watched, and clicked up many kilometres walking around the cane farms.
Our birds of the week...Bar Breasted Honey Eater (O’Connell Rv), Eastern Yellow Robin (Finch Hatton Gorge), female Fig Bird, plain brown but beautiful markings, Blue Winged Kookaburra, (Midge Point),
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