Well we are at Undara Lava Tubes for 3 nights. Booked for a tour tomorrow of the lava tubes.
Setting up and meeting the neighbours, mainly Queenslanders. We now have a story which bets all, take note Steve & Sharyn. Well there is always one in every park, the leaf blower. We are in a park with gravel roads, trees and leaves everywhere and then we have our leaf blower blowing leaves over everyone else but there now is one that goes one above, he had a paint brush and was cleaning under the bonnet of his car. Oh dear have seen everything and not a camera in sight, ritual started again next day.
The main area is made up of many train carriages from around Queensland and adapted to a cafe style, very impressive. A drink and catching up on emails as no wifi or internet at site.
Quite an impressive park, having areas designated for unpowered, tent, self contained units,and glamping tents. This is one park where there are fire pits all around and all glowing.
Lava tubes what can I say very impressed with our tour guide, Mel, and the tour. As you will see plenty of photos. The area’s unique geology has resulted in an unusual environment . After many volcanoes, I think about 80, last one erupted 10,000 years ago, there have been many lava flows which has created these tubes and unique landscape of Savannah and rainforest.
There are bottle trees, iron bark and cork trees or some say bat tree as leaves look like bat wings, there is even a fig tree.
We descend down stairs through lots of basalt and come to an arch which over the years has been created from a collapse on either side and a diversion of the basalt hitting a granite wall.
There is still water in the tube and has submerged the walkway but we can get our feet wet and amazing how refreshing it is not as cold as I thought it would be. The water is clear and we are amazed at the root of a tree winding under the water. We had a photo taken and amazed when we view our photos there is an extra person Ha ha!!!
We progressed to the Collins Rd Cave. We can actually walk all the way in and see where the cave actually becomes a waterway.
The colours are amazing from all the different minerals. Didn’t take note of all the different one only remembered the talk of all different colours.if you look closely to the photo you will see the bubbles in the basalt of escaping gas.
Next day we partner up with a couple from Townsville John (our phantom photographer) & Tanya and they drive up out to the Kalkani Crater and do the rim walk. Quite informative about how crater created and on the horizon you can see the lava collapse ( a dark green line) and the Savannah.
Campfire tonight and time to move on John & Tracey off home and we progress onto Innot Springs two nights.
Called into Mount Garnet for an ice cream and photos opportunity.
Passed through Mount Garnett population of 532, went to the info centre and took photos of the Pub, can you believe it….
Innott Springs, had a heart failure with the price but forgot about what they charge to swim in the pools, so wasn’t so bad after all. So relaxing you can go for room temperature to 44 degrees, and then plunge into a room temperature pool to cool yourself. Great setup, family operation, with mainly unpowered sites and a few powered.
Lake at the back of us where the birds were having a wonderful time can’t believe the turbo chooks (native hens) are here as well, so noisy at night. Met a couple from New Zealand who were here 10 years ago and he was explaining the changes that have been made since they were here.
We have two night and made good use of the pools and relaxing, wonderful.
Where to now ???????
Bullhaven Antics 