Tuesday, 19 June 2018
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Green Tablelands |
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Strawberries with sugar |
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Lake Tinaroo from our window |
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Still Lake Tinaroo |
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Sunrise |
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Waiting for the guests to say goodbye |
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Fresh tribute |
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Preparing ... |
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Yungaburra flowers |
Not having unhitched the car from the caravan during our
stay at Undara, it didn’t take too long to be on the road early on Monday
morning, heading for our final stop at Yungaburra, before reaching Cairns. Although clear and sunny, the southerly wind
was very brisk and created a decent headwind for the first part of our journey;
once we turned north, we then enjoyed the benefits of a tail wind. Once again, the road climbed gradually until
Innot Springs, then it was a fairly sharp climb to 1050 metres at
Ravenshoe. After passing the wind farm,
the countryside continued to be hilly and windy as we started the descent to
the Atherton Tableland. What a change in
the country today – savannah to rain forest to the lush, green hills and
Friesian cows! And sugar cane!!!
We are spending three nights at the Lakeside Caravan Park at
Yungaburra, on the banks of the very full Lake Tinaroo and directly opposite
the Afghanistan Avenue of Honour. We
have a site which looks straight down the lake – very pleasant aspect and
especially beautiful in the early dawn light.
Unfortunately, there are a large number of dogs in the park
and no one seems concerned about enforcing the regulations – dogs are allowed
roam and we have a particularly nasty specimen in the caravan next to us which
Mummy allows to run free and do as he likes.
We had a quick trip to Atherton after lunch for fuel, stopping at a roadside stand advertising avocadoes, only to find they were all gone. So we consoled ourselves with a stop at Shaylee Strawberry Farm and had one of their home made ice creams each instead.
Tuesday was spent waiting for the only washing machine in
this section of the park to be available and then discovering only a couple of
lines were free on the clothes line – not good when it was sheets and towels
day as well. A line was tied under our
awning and the clothes horse resurrected from under the bed. The stiff southerly breeze (freezing cold,
southerly breeze actually) helped with the drying.
We visited the Gallo Dairyland, with its very distinctive
300 cow odour, for lunch (fortunately the smell doesn’t intrude indoors) and
felt it would be very rude to leave without purchasing some of their home made
chocolates. Following a drive around
some of the back rounds, we enjoyed a walk around the pretty Yungaburra
village, with its gorgeous hanging baskets and preparations for Pink Ribbon Day
in full swing.
1 comment:
Love this area, especially the dairy , nearly there xx
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