No cleaning at the caravan park allowed as most were on water restrictions.The trailer was worse.
Several mud holes were hit after the rain started. Mud everywhere.
Very still conditions on the ocean on the trip over to the Islands
In the main street after a counter lunch at the pub. A quick snooze before the ferry trip home.
This was on the back of the official marker post for the tip.
Rowles Rotten Tours made it to the top. Took a while to work out the camera timer to get this shot.
Just had to do it.
As far as the car could get near the tip. Notice the numbers plates. PIES.
Made it up to the Cape and set up camp at Seisia. The beach was only 50 metres away and looked great.Only problem was a croc was spotted there not long ago so a swim was out of the question.
Fruit bat falls on the Telelgraph road was a good spot to cool off. No crocs.
Some crocs.
At peace with nature once again. Where's my waterproof book ??
Searched Queensland for some new orange crocs. None here either.
Cooktown main street at peak hour. Some tourists we met along the trip told us not to bother visiting this town. We liked it that much we stayed an extra day. The museum there actually had Captain Cook's anchor off the Endeavor and a cannon.
Falls on the way to Cooktown
Typical day with the clouds rolling over the mountains. This one was at the ice cream factory.
Could'nt get any closer to the forrest
Done all walk trails rain or shine.
Up to the tablelands to look for the elusive platypus
The town have erected special viewing areas. None here though ?? We had to explore up the creek more.
Bingo !!!! Spotted one playing in the middle of the creek.
Liz was very happy that we had finally found one in the wild. Strange place to put a sign ?
Water features
Castles and tennis courts The castle only was a replica and the rooms were too small to live in.He built a ballroom off the castle but it burnt down
Eating areas by the waterfalls.
These stairs lead down to the waterfall picnic area.
Airlee Beach had changed so much since we last visited 27 years ago. We could not pick where the caravan park was when we were there last.
Daydream Island was far better. Even the dolphins tried to impress Liz.
Whitehaven Beach is almost pure silica. Squeaks when you walk on it. Only a few brave people went into the water. Too cold for us.
Back on the mainland and Saturday was footy finals day. Good old Colingwood forever!!!!!!
Here we are at Mt Eungella making use of shelter as it was raining. We thought we would be the only ones mad enough to drive out ther in the pouring rain but a "wicked" van rolled up at sunset. At night the fire flys came out of the mud to put a show on. It was a bit spooky.
The hall was called the Critadon and looks like it needed some TLC
Next morning we were off to try and catch a glimps of a platypus in the creeks. Were missed them. They hide after 8 o'clock.
The walks along the rivers were great. It had finished raining but a few drops off the leaves were still falling.
Still no sign of the Platypus. Bugger.Back down the mountain again.
Once ashore on Vila we took a tour to the waterfalls. We were guided by one of the locals. Along the path he stopped several times to show some of his talents by making spears from grass, holding water in a leaf and telling the kids on the tour some life lessons on how to respect their parents and always listen to them. He stopped to get the local girls to share their little lizard with us.
At the top he introduced us to some singers. All of them had lost their mothers early on their lives. They sang the Lords Prayer and a song about missing their mothers. A few tears welled upin Liz's eyes.
On to the water falls. All limestone. It was slippery on the mud out of the water. Here the tour guide took over the camera. The tour was booked to take 2 hours and along the way he kept on saying not to worry about time and enjoy ourselves. In the end we took 31/2 hours.