Aussie Alan, one of the many ‘Grey Nomads’ we met on our way up to the Daintree Rainforest National Park. He’s been travelling around and across Oz for a couple of years now.
Sugar Cane fields are a common feature in north Queensland, many of the Cane Cutters work the season up here and then when they have finished go travelling around Australia until the season starts again.
The cane is transported out of the fields to the trucks using these little Cane Trains.
We passed lots of sugar cane refining plants, as you would expect there is a strong sweet smell in the surrounding areas.
On the boat after we had snorkelled on the Great Barrier Reef. Beautiful coloured coral and lots of amazing fish. It’s the start of stinger season and out here they can be deadly so we had to wear very fetching lycra babygro’s
The ‘Ocean Safari’ boat that took us out to the Great Barrier Reef. It was a great trip a small fast boat and only a small group, some of the the other boats take can out 400 hundred people.
A couple of nice sunrise pictures at our Cape Tribulation campsite, for those of you heading into winter we are not trying to make you jealous (honestly).
This is the rainforest that bordered the beach in the previous pictures. We should have worn wetsuits and wellies whilst exploring, that may have reduced the huge range of insect bites we are now sporting.
Strange swampy tree roots.
Our first snake encounter (quite happy if it‘s our last).
This is the Curtain Fig Tree, an amazing mass of hanging roots that started life as a seedling living as a parasite on another tree until the original tree died and the fig carried on growing.
Our first spider, this is the apparently harmless Golden Orb spider. It was about the size of John‘s hand.
This type of scenery is typical of the Atherton Tablelands area of Queensland. Sometimes it reminded us very much of Cornwall or Wales (but with palm trees!).
The ‘Dinner Falls’
The ‘Zillie falls’
The ‘Ellinjaa Falls’
Ravenshoe, the highest town in Queensland where we found a general store that really did sell a broad range of items.
Paronella Park, a strange collection of buildings built by a Spaniard in the 1930’s. His dream was to build a European style castle in Queensland unfortunately he only had concrete rather than stone! The overall effect is quite interesting and it was an amazing feat as most of it was built by one man.
Fruit Bats at Paronella Park
Micro or Bentwing Bats at Paronella Park, these are very cute and tiny, each adult is about the size of a golf ball.
This is ‘Tillie the tree frog’ who made a dubious decision to take up residence on the Tenere just as we were about to set off. Following Mr Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory we are not sure whether Tillie made it through the journey to tell the tale to her tree frog friends.
Aussie Alan, one of the many ‘Grey Nomads’ we met on our way up to the Daintree Rainforest National Park. He’s been travelling around and across Oz for a couple of years now.
Sugar Cane fields are a common feature in north Queensland, many of the Cane Cutters work the season up here and then when they have finished go travelling around Australia until the season starts again.
The cane is transported out of the fields to the trucks using these little Cane Trains.
We passed lots of sugar cane refining plants, as you would expect there is a strong sweet smell in the surrounding areas. 
On the boat after we had snorkelled on the Great Barrier Reef. Beautiful coloured coral and lots of amazing fish. It’s the start of stinger season and out here they can be deadly so we had to wear very fetching lycra babygro’s
The ‘Ocean Safari’ boat that took us out to the Great Barrier Reef. It was a great trip a small fast boat and only a small group, some of the the other boats take can out 400 hundred people. 
A couple of nice sunrise pictures at our Cape Tribulation campsite, for those of you heading into winter we are not trying to make you jealous (honestly).
This is the rainforest that bordered the beach in the previous pictures. We should have worn wetsuits and wellies whilst exploring, that may have reduced the huge range of insect bites we are now sporting.
Strange swampy tree roots.
Our first snake encounter (quite happy if it‘s our last).
This is the Curtain Fig Tree, an amazing mass of hanging roots that started life as a seedling living as a parasite on another tree until the original tree died and the fig carried on growing.
Our first spider, this is the apparently harmless Golden Orb spider. It was about the size of John‘s hand.
This type of scenery is typical of the Atherton Tablelands area of Queensland. Sometimes it reminded us very much of Cornwall or Wales (but with palm trees!). 
The ‘Dinner Falls’
The ‘Zillie falls’
The ‘Ellinjaa Falls’
Ravenshoe, the highest town in Queensland where we found a general store that really did sell a broad range of items. 
Paronella Park, a strange collection of buildings built by a Spaniard in the 1930’s. His dream was to build a European style castle in Queensland unfortunately he only had concrete rather than stone! The overall effect is quite interesting and it was an amazing feat as most of it was built by one man.
Fruit Bats at Paronella Park
Micro or Bentwing Bats at Paronella Park, these are very cute and tiny, each adult is about the size of a golf ball.
This is ‘Tillie the tree frog’ who made a dubious decision to take up residence on the Tenere just as we were about to set off. Following Mr Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory we are not sure whether Tillie made it through the journey to tell the tale to her tree frog friends.
Enjoyed this blog lots.xx
ReplyDeleteGreat to meet you on the way to Syndey and thanks for sharing your experience with the Tenere. If you need any help in Perth, give me a bell 0429196287 ..... Ed
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ReplyDeleteHi John sorry we will not be with you to celebrate your big 50 (I hope I have the date correct?) We are all thinking of you both.
Are you getting e-mails I haven't been sending many as I am not sure, last one sent 11th Oct. Weather here is terrible cold and wet, hard to get out of bed on Monday morning in the dark, so we are really envious. Have a great day, I'll drop you a quick text too, keep up the blog. Chris
Hi Chris, jane and i are having a great time in Oz and we have had a wonderful day on a boat in Sydney Harbour with Vic and Stew, sea food lunch and champers! Had a good view of the Opera House from the boat (which was a 38 ft luxury MV). We missed sharing this day with all our freinds in th UK and hope to recover the situation when we return. Hope you, Tracy, Abi and Molly are doing good. Love to all. John and Jane.
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