Undara National Park
This is a volcanic national park in the outback, 300km inland from the coast. The scenery changes dramatically from the palm tree banana plantations to a much drier climate with long golden grass, giant pink grantite and small prickly trees. An African savanah with kangaroos.
Good things
Lots of hopping kangaroos, walaroos and wallabies. All look very similar after a few sherries.
Camped in the park with all the birds, spiders, snakes and hoppy things. Great stars at the 3am bathroom run.
Giant volcanic lava tubes - 100 foot high and over 100km long. You can walk through them as they're all hollow and because they protect the plants from wind and dehydration you get a weird rain forest all around even though it's a really dry area.
Watching the sunset on a cliff overlooking miles of savanah with cheese and champagne
Bush breakfasts, toasting bread in the campfire and eating eggs and beans with early morning kangaroos
Poetry session around the campfire at night
Stopped at the Timotei Girl Waterfall in the Atherton Tablelands - looked nice but the water was a bit chilly for a dip
Bad things
Rented worst car ever. A heap of junk without a radio, air conditioning that worked for two minutes and then smelt of burnt rubber; dashboard held together with gaffa tape; window wipers that missed the screen and tried to jump off the edge of the car; and a dodgy fuel gauage. We had to stop when it rained hard or got too hot. Well it was cheap..
The main road has single lanes for a large part of the way. These were made more fun by having to dive off the road every time you met a road train - 4 giant truck loads loosely connected together and coming at you at a dust hurling 100kph
Found a track off the side of the road to see a view of a huge river bending around the mountain but it started raining on the way back and had to slip and slide on the muddy track back to the car before our second camera blew up in the tropical rain. Had forgotten to take any waterproofs and just wandered along in sandals like virgin tourists. Mistake!
Drive back through the mist and gloom reminded me of hilly slopes of South Wales...in November.
This is a volcanic national park in the outback, 300km inland from the coast. The scenery changes dramatically from the palm tree banana plantations to a much drier climate with long golden grass, giant pink grantite and small prickly trees. An African savanah with kangaroos.
Good things
Lots of hopping kangaroos, walaroos and wallabies. All look very similar after a few sherries.
Camped in the park with all the birds, spiders, snakes and hoppy things. Great stars at the 3am bathroom run.
Giant volcanic lava tubes - 100 foot high and over 100km long. You can walk through them as they're all hollow and because they protect the plants from wind and dehydration you get a weird rain forest all around even though it's a really dry area.
Watching the sunset on a cliff overlooking miles of savanah with cheese and champagne
Bush breakfasts, toasting bread in the campfire and eating eggs and beans with early morning kangaroos
Poetry session around the campfire at night
Stopped at the Timotei Girl Waterfall in the Atherton Tablelands - looked nice but the water was a bit chilly for a dip
Bad things
Rented worst car ever. A heap of junk without a radio, air conditioning that worked for two minutes and then smelt of burnt rubber; dashboard held together with gaffa tape; window wipers that missed the screen and tried to jump off the edge of the car; and a dodgy fuel gauage. We had to stop when it rained hard or got too hot. Well it was cheap..
The main road has single lanes for a large part of the way. These were made more fun by having to dive off the road every time you met a road train - 4 giant truck loads loosely connected together and coming at you at a dust hurling 100kph
Found a track off the side of the road to see a view of a huge river bending around the mountain but it started raining on the way back and had to slip and slide on the muddy track back to the car before our second camera blew up in the tropical rain. Had forgotten to take any waterproofs and just wandered along in sandals like virgin tourists. Mistake!
Drive back through the mist and gloom reminded me of hilly slopes of South Wales...in November.
1 comment:
Sounds like a great car!! (: The camping truly sounds wonderful. I have to admit, I'm a wee bit jealous.
Post a Comment