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Day 27 Tablelands sights day

Ku kandziyisiwile: 14.07.2022

For a day packed with lookouts, walks, lakes, trees and drives we had an early start heading to Rusty´s Market in Cairns for breakfast, stocking up fruits & vegs and mainly to buy some fresh bread. Unfortunately the bakery wasn´t open that day without any hint why, so no bread this time.

First stop was at Lake Barrine for 5km loop to see the kauri pines. No luck today: after almost finishing the loop there was a construction site to repair the broadwalk around the kauri pines, so we couldn´t see them. On the 5km loop was otherwise not much to see, so not really worth the walk, but from the car park over a cafe was a beautiful sunny lookout over the lake. So Stuart decided this is the perfect spot for having the delicious small cakes we bought at Rusty´s Market.

Breakfast at Lake Barrine
Breakfast at Lake Barrine

After the picnic we were heading to the Tinaroo forest drive (although almost no forest on the way) for a stop at the Cathedral Fig Tree. This tree was very big and impressive. Good signs explained how a fig tree can become over time so big and how fauna & flora is benefiting from such trees.

Cathedral Fig Tree
Cathedral Fig Tree

Next stop on the way was the Mobo creek crater to look out for some wild platypus on the short loop walk. As we couldn´t spot any platypus we drove on to Lake Euramoo for a short picture from the lookout and a look at the impressive Tinaroo dam. Next stop was Lake Eacham to maybe see some freshi & turtles. There were signs to not disturb the freshi and turtles but although we had a close look around the clear water, we did not find the freshi or any turtles, so to see a freshi in the wild still remains on the bucket list.

Mobo creek crater
Mobo creek crater
Lake Euramoo
Lake Euramoo
Tinaroo dam
Tinaroo dam
Lake Eacham
Lake Eacham

As we didn´t see a platypus at Mobo creek crater we decided to head to the Yungaburra area. First stop was at the Curtain Fig Tree. On the walk we were also looking out for tree kangaroos but didn´t see any except on the roadsign.

just the sign, no tree kangurus to be found
just the sign, no tree kangurus to be found
Curtain Fig Tree
Curtain Fig Tree

So the last stop for the day was the Yungaburra Platypus spotting platform. Although we also walked along this little river for over an hour in the late afternoon, we were only able to find some turtles but no platypus. As we did not want to drive back in the dark to our accommodation, we decided to come back the other day to try our luck again...

Yungaburra turtle
Yungaburra turtle
Yungaburra turtle
Yungaburra turtle


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