22.08.07

ATHERTON

Up early due to the kookaburras believing it was their duty to wake the whole camp at 0530; the same ones sent us to bed previous evening :( No Victoria they weren’t sitting on an electric wire but Grandma did see one on the power lines today), so we were away by 0730. Stopped at Mount Garnett for a cuppa and then went onto Ravenshoe where we went to the bakery for lunch and had a walk around, also did some shopping. There is a steam train running from there once a week on Sundays, and along side is a nice clean green area with lots of people camping. Spoke to a chap working on the train and he lives in Brisbane and comes up a few times a year as he has a boiler master’s ticket.

Continued on toward Atherton and stopped on a big hill to view the wind turbines. From there there was road to Millaa Millaa Falls but it had signs saying “Not recommended for caravans”, I figured we had a camper trailer and that would be OK. Wrong, after a few K’s of very narrow road we turned back. However we did stop at Millstrem Falls that are supposed to be the widest in Australia.

Arrived in Atherton and booked into a Big 4 park which has internet access free, so that is probably worth 10 bucks, however it won’t work away from the office so sat by the pool to reach the network. Checked email and sent one out, rang everyone after tea as the mobile works again after a long while.