The drive was about 500km and around 180 of the last we will see of unsealed road on this trip. There might be a little beach work and a couple of national parks, but we can wash the dust off now and feel a little cleaner.
Once we made it through Laura and pressed on to Mareeba and the peanut country of Tolga and Atherton, we were amazed at the landscape changes once we turned east and headed for the coast via Malanda, Milla Milla and the Palmers region. The ranges through that sector were simply beautiful and we didn't know they existed. Had we known we probably would have planned to stay a night or two up there.
It was around 4.30pm when we arrived at the van park after getting supplies at Innisfail, so we had enough time to devour a BBQ chicken and get organised after setting up. The boys were pretty tired to be honest and given they had nothing but their socks to play with on the 6 - 7 hour journey today, we were happy with the way they behaved. This was confirmed by the no fuss bed time when we asked at 7.15am.
Needless to say they had made 4 new friends by the time tea and no doubt will be trying to stalk them tomorrow.
It looks like a really nice place here and we think we will enjoy our little stay.
Jase and Nat
No comments:
Post a Comment