On the way back from our lovely tour of the Sarina Sugar Shed we made a quick stop at Hay Point. There’s a lookout with a great view of one of the largest coal export ports in the world. Look at all that coal! I can’t begin to describe how much coal we could see. They export something like nine million tonnes from this port every month. The coal is transported to the port through a rail system. When we … Read More
As we made our way from Finch Hatton Gorge to Eungella we stopped at the Sky Window Lookout, we’d heard that on a clear day you can see all the way back to Mackay. Given that we were an hour from the coast it sounded like the view would be stunning. It’s also popular for bird viewing, though we were too noisy that afternoon to have much hope of seeing many. The lookout is a short loop with a couple … Read More
Driving into Townsville you can’t help but notice Castle Hill. It’s an iconic granite monolith that’s apparently just metres short of being classified as a mountain. We drove to the top for a view of Townsville from above. I’ve realised that although I have heaps of pictures of the view, I don’t have any pictures of Castle Hill itself. You can see pictures of it here. That means I also don’t have pictures of The Saint painted on the side … Read More
Not too far from Cooktown are a couple of mountains covered in heaps and heaps of black rocks. It looks like at some point in the past it must have rained black rocks all over these mountains. It’s named…are you ready? Black Mountain National Park. Because, you know, the mountains look black. You can’t really hike the mountain, you can only observe it from the lookout. Underneath all those rocks there can be gaps and people have been injured in … Read More
After Mulambin we drove several days in a row to get all the way up to Cooktown. It was tiring, driving for several hours and staying for just one night at our stops along the way. Cooktown is as far north as the sealed road goes, so this is as far north as we will be going on this trip. The plan is to make our way back down the coast as far as Mackay, then we’ll head inland all … Read More
Is this not the prettiest kookaburra ever? He looks so soft and fluffy. 🙂 While in Mulambin we did the Bluff Point walk. We’d read you could get a 360 degree view of the area and see turtles swimming in the ocean. Sounds good! The trail does a circuit and we soon found out it’s one of those popular fitness tracks. You can choose your direction and do the steep part first or last. We opted to do the steep … Read More