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Sep 12, 2012 - Atherton to Paronella Park

So it rained during the night, I think I jinxed it by saying I was grateful for no winter.....oh well we started the trip with it, we might as well finish it with rain! Only a short drive today to Paronella Park - A story of a spaniards dream. Jose Paronella's dream was to build a castle. He chose a special part of Australia and created the park on 13 acres besides Mena Creek Falls. He built his castle, picnic areas at the lakeside, tennis courts, tunnels, bridges and wrapped it up in an amazing range of 7000 plants and trees. Most...

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Sep 28, 2011 - Paronella Park - Sep 28

This park has been one of the highlights of this trip - an amazing place, built by one man and opened to the public 76 years ago, purely as a tourist destination. He never lived in his wonderful Castle, but he and his family lived in a very modest cottage that overlooked the Castle. He held banquets, movie nights, balls etc for the local people and travellers. He planted 7500 trees/plants in the park, and his vision was just incredible. We loved the night tour, when the buildings are lit up, with music playing, and the day tour was very...

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Oct 17, 2010 - 40km scrub park

17th October 40km scrub park Had my first lie in (until half 9) in weeks as it was eventually cool enough. Had an early morning tour of Paranella Park, which was very pretty so ended up staying longer than expected. Everything there was made by one Jose Paranella, all the steel was from stolen railway tracks and all the concrete was plastered on by hand with the finger marks preserved. They had giant eels and turtles because the're fed 5 times a day and we also saw the smallest cutest bats, minutire bent wing bats in the delapitated 'lovers...

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Oct 16, 2010 - Paranella park

16th October Paranella Park, Japoonvale Rd, Mena creek Up nice and early for a pommy wash (aparently that means just face and armpits) and then to a petrol station for fuel and to ask them to put my amera battery on charge. We had breakfast there for something to do while it charged then headed to a nearby boulder gorge, it was actually pretty spectacular. We then headed to a canopy walk and up an un-nervingly swaying tower to watch the birds fly beneath. On the way back to our free camping spot we just called in at Paronella park, a...

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