The Tablelands

Today, Friday 23^rd July is a public holiday in Cairns (Cairns Show Day) and my brother in law had promised us a guided tour around the Tablelands. He grew up on the tablelands in the fifties and sixties.

The weather was somewhat miserable but we made the best of the day and up the treacherous Gillies Highway we went.

Sights we visited included Lake Barrine, The Twin Kauris, The Cathedral Fig, Mobo Creek Crater, The Chimneys, Lake Euramoo, Bromfield Swamp, The Crater, Dinner Falls, Millaa Millaa Falls and Lake Eachem.

Honey Pie and I had visited some of these attractions in the seventies and I'm looking forward to searching for the photographs we took during the earlier visit on our return home to compare them with photographs we've taken today.

We had lunch at Malanda Pub and had to return to Malanda for afternoon tea as everywhere else seemed to be shut! Couldn't blame them really, as the weather was fit for ducks and not much more.

Thanks to a knowledgeable local, we were able to see much more in the time we had than if we'd done the trip on our own.

My how they've grown!  Twin Kauri Pines.

Brightly coloured rainforest fungi.

Hypipamee Crater, Atherton.  That green at the bottom of the picture is water!  How deep is deep?
An eighty two metre deep lake with fifty eight metre sheer granite walls rising above the lake.

Picture perfect, Millaa Millaa Falls.  (People were swimming here even though it was raining).