We go out to Tinaroo Dam for the week end while we wait for Monday and pathologist and minor repairs to be done.. Tinaroo Dam is a beautiful spot but we had continuous light misty rain. Not cold and we still walked around in it most of the time but made things miserable.
On a bush walk we saw flowers coming out of this truck Its the way they grow!!!! And of course the friendly Python.
Harmless they say but I suggested we walk back via the ROAD!!!!
Sunday afternoon it all cleared and was beautiful but Monday morning it was back again. No worries we headed back into Atherton. I was able to show Barry the sites as the road was the same one I traveled by myself. Very picturesque!!!!!!
Our Camp fire Atherton
We head to Mareeba and check out the Museum behind the Information centre and wot do we see An Old Ambulance... I mean Old... We found it very interesting in the "light" of our previous experiences.
From here we call into The Coffee Works... A Chocolate & Coffee Factory also selling teas. The Ultimate Tourist attraction. I think there was every conceivable souvenir on sale. The Chocolates were good tooo.. (Lemon Myrtle in dark choc...MMMMMM Yum) As were the Teas. Haven't tried the coffee yet?? The complex was so big you could spend all day in there tasting teas and coffees as well as having lunch. ( sorry no Photos.. too busy trying chocolates... Hope the family enjoyed their food parcels??)
We continued on to Chilligoe ... the last stop before heading WEST on the Burke Development Road which is unsealed but supposed to be in good condition. Also no fuel for 560ks unless you take a detour of 100 ks to Kowanyama .... Which we did but more of that later...!!!!!!
Chilligoe was an interesting little town. Originally commenced due to mining of tin, lime and quarrying marble.
And of course Tourism with the Limestone Caves... Lime and marble is still crushed here today. we enjoyed the town staying a couple of nights having a drink in each Pub ( 2 of them...we showed no favouritism )
Barry looking through balancing rocks on one of our walks
Barry also found an old gentlemanwho collected old cars and did them up.
I've never seen such an assortment
of cars, trucks, WW11 vehicles... and they all work. It was hard to leave as the gentleman LOVED TO TALK!!!!!!!!!!!
As we head out of town I take my last look at civilization for several days>>>.so I think!!!! But in reality people are everywhere doing exactly what we are doing travelling the less popular treks. Sometimes we are by ourselves but not often.
YES -- We now have you pinpointed on a map, waaay up there where only the hardy dare go.
ReplyDeleteThat python should be no threat to you since it appears to be quite bulged out from having eaten some less-fortunate creature -- yes? (But flowers coming out of a truck? I could have sworn that is a tree....)
Yes the Python was bulging.... but I dont trust snakes... Do they know they are not interested in me?????? Yeh... Sooo Im typing too quickly leaving the "n" out. You'll probably see more of this...
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