Thursday, 14 November 2013

More exploring!

We went for a drive around Malanda and came by  the Nerada  tea plantation. We were amazed at the extensive area covered with tea bushes. We kind of drove around it and also came by a bamboo plantation, which seemed to have been abandoned.


 We followed the road that  brought us to Wooroonooran National Park, where walking tracks are everywhere.


While driving around Russell River,


 we came up to this lovely pony. I felt like taking  him home !


I found this fence decoration very interesting, as it was in the mountains…


 We finally came up to Lamins Hill lookout and the view was just magnificent. Hills and valleys on one side


and Mount Bartle Frere on the other, which is the highest Queensland Peek (1,622 m).


You have to take you hat off to the earlier pioneers who explored this area and made tracks through the dense rain forests.


Wild dogs are unfortunately everywhere and they have to put poison baits to control them.


This letter box I thought was very original…


Back in Yungaburra, in a little street that we hadn't gone through yet, we saw this huge tree, which I guess the people who planted it, years ago, didn't think it would outgrow its pot!


Finally back home we are waiting for the wet season with impatience, as the lake is going down. We need a lot of rain this year to refill it the way we're accustomed to.




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