This part of Queensland is sugar cane country. Over the past couple of days we have travelled through several hundred kilometres of sugar cane fields. Little train tracks run around all the plantations and the cane gets shredded and transported in hundreds of metal cages. After a nice lunch in a seaside town called Mackay we travelled into Eungella National Park. We arrived after dark and set up in a bush site. It was bloody freezing as the park is part of the great dividing range (A huge mountain range that runs from North of Australia to the South.) and therefore very high up. We were all dressed in pretty much everything we had, and slept in it too! In the morning we went for a rainforest walk along ‘Broken River’ We were extremely lucky to see a baby platypus playing in the river. It was so cute. Platypus are very shy creatures and are normally only spotted in early morning or at dusk. I think this one was out without it’s mum knowing! Unfortunately we couldn’t get a photo of it but did catch this turtle swimming at the same time.
Hi everyone,
You might have arrived after dark but what a view to experience in Eungella National Park the next day.
Must go, I am working up a ladder whilst Nana is in Wales.
Love Grandad