Ma:Mu

Nerada Tea Plantation

Zillie Falls

Ellinjaa Falls

Native Banana Flower along the Ma:Mu Canopy Walkway.
We left Millaa Millaa Tourist Park behind, damp and boggy after a light rain through the night.
Visited Zillie Falls, Ellinjaa Falls and Mungalli Falls in drizzle.
Morning tea was enjoyed at Mungalli Creek Bio Dynamic Dairy.
Discovered Ma:Mu Canopy Walkway as we headed towards Innisfail.
What a find.  This is a Must Do if you're in the area.
The canopy walkway resulted after the destruction left by Cyclone Larry in 2006. The North Queensland locals still talk about Larry as if the cyclone only happened yesterday.
To construct the canopy walkway, not a single tree was removed.  Instead, after Cyclone Larry, the walkway was constructed following the path of destruction.
The cyclone features quite heavily in the information panels along the walks.
More than nine hundred thousand recycled milk bottles were used in the making of the plastic decking used on the walkways.
A shuddering thirty seven metre high tower (cyclone proof of course) takes one up above the rainforest canopy.  Exhilarating.
Innisfail, a city of Art Deco architecture, is also recovering from Larry and a project to restore its buildings to their original glory is continuing today.
We don't have enough time to explore Innisfail fully so put the town on our agenda for a later trip and head back to Cairns.
The weather improves as the day wears on.