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Oct 31, 2012 - Cairns to Georgetown via Atherton tablelands

Finally left Cairns today and are heading inland towards the centre of oz. We expect the weather to start heating up from here on in. We start the drive with quite a steep hill climb and beautiful views of valleys below. Our first stop is at Yungabarra where we divert off the main highway to see the curtain fig tree. It's 500yrs old and you can only start to imagine how big it is. They describe it as a tree out of lord of the rings and we do feel a little like hobbits as it towers over us. We go back to the platypus viewing but find out its...

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Aug 24, 2012 - Innot Hot Springs to Cumberland Chimney Camp

After spending the morning sitting in the hot springs we slowly left Innot Hot Springs around 10.30 and had no idea where we would stop but had made the choice that it would be a bush camp. The family we talked to said if there was no free camp they'd just pull into a gravel put off the side of the road. As we travelled along we paid more attention to then and they really are everywhere!! We didn't need to stop in a gravel pit as we came across a free bush camp at the historical mine site with a big bricked chimney. It wasnt in our camps...

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Jun 28, 2010 - Georgetown

Nothing much in Georgetown and the only reason we stopped was to go to Cobbold Gorge which is 90km’s south and well worth the drive. Cobbold Gorge is unique in that it is hidden away within the rugged sandstone formations of North Qld. The gorge is extremely narrow, closing to a mere two metres wide in places, with spectacular 30 metres cliffs on either side. We ventured down the gorge in a flat aluminum tinny which held around 12 people. Part of the tour included a walk along bush tracks with a fully trained Savannah Guide snapping off...

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Jun 25, 2010 - Georgetown & Cobbold Gorge

Georgetown and Cobbold Gorge, The Midway Van Park in Georgetown is a great spot, run by an Ivan Milat look alike but a hell of a nice chap, so obliging and helpful (grilled me two (2) Georgetown sausages for dinner last night). This morning we ventured out to the Gorge, 90km from Georgetown but well worth the drive, simply stunning scenery though the lunch was a bit of a fizzer… Carol had Dog Minding duties rostered so that I could venture forth to the gorge with a busload of fellow adventurers. Gracie did behave herself until a golden...

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May 9, 2008 - 9th May, Undara lava tubes, Georgetown

On the road again....sights set for Undara and the lava tubes, just east of Mt Surprise. Turned onto the Savannah Way, now heading due west....this is the Cairns/Broome Hwy, or so it says in Cairns. Another 30 or 40 kms and we turn south into the Undara National Park and another 15kms we're at the Undara Lodge. Quite a bustling little settlement, 23 refurbished railway carriages make up most of the buildings, including accomodation, reception and visitors centre, bar and dining area. Apparently the owner of the place rescued these carriages...

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May 22, 2005 - Atherton Tablelands near Gorgetown

We drove like the dickons to make it the "TableLands" near Cairns and what a glorious site this place was!! I can't even begin to do the landscape justice..........the rolling hills, the greens, the yellows, the flowers and the beauty of it all. The best I can do is to tell you to imagine Paradise, and that is it!! We did all of the must sees in one day; there was a bunch of driving tours which included: Seven different Waterfalls, Walks, Dairyfarms, Two Huge Fig Trees called the "Curtain Fig" and the "Cathedral Fig" and two Crater Lakes....

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