We turned off just south of Malanda to visit the Nerada Tea Plantation – they don’t open weekends – another part time tourist destination. I can’t believe that they don’t open on Saturdays, I understand Sundays.
No selective hand picking here. A very high mower straight over the top. So if a weed manages to sprout up (which I saw) I doubt that they would stop for it – I bet it goes into the mix.
This road was also to give us a view of Mt Bartle Frere (1622m) our highest mountain in Queensland. Unfortunately it was misted out, however we have been seeing it in the distance during our drives. It does not really stand out as it is in a ridge.
A file photo of our highest mountain in Qld.
Our next stop was Crater Lakes National Park and Lake Eacham.
The lake water was a green blue colour and quite clear. This was a large fish near the surface.
The next stop of Yungaburra and Tinaroo Dam
How the weather deteriorated during lunch.
Yungaburra was a quaint village set out town. It is now very popular with the day trippers for coffee.
Next on our drive is Curtain Fig National Park.
Beautiful walk way around the tree. It is massive with a lot of aerial roots.
A very beech tree look.
Birds were teasing – flitting about in the canopy.
It was so high up, I couldn’t tell what it was until after I took the photo. It’s my little friend the Boatbill – the uncommon one (well that’s two in two days – I don’t think so)
I can see why he is named a boat bill because from underneath that is the shape of his bill.
Our afternoon ended with a couple of hours at the Herberton Village Museum.
It is a whole village of restored buildings in a village set up and within each building are museum items specific to the type of building.
Back in school – it looked like my class room
Although, Nip and Fluff were missing. (dog and cat if these were not your first readers)
Below – Ada’s Frock Salon
We will never see handmade like this again. This quality of clothing is now long gone.
All the toys of yester year were there. All the favourites of our childhood.
In the coach house, the first fully restored funeral carriage that I have seen. Including the black feather head dress for the white horses. What a way to make your final journey.
This is a Furphy’s Water cart. Furphy were famous for making cast iron – based in Victoria.
I loved their slogan
Good – Better – Best
Never let it rest
Till your good is better
and your better is best
Indian Prince Motor cycle – one of the maintenance guys started it up – absolutely fantastic.
I like that a lot of the cars are not restored but as is condition.
A dispensing pharmacy, not like to day where the pharmacist is a retail assistant.
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Elderslie House has just opened to the public after a long restoration. What a privileged life you would have led as a member of this family living this house.
So we can forget what I said about the outdoor museum in SA – this is far the best museum that I have been too. It is privately owned – loved it.
We headed back to camp through the mist and rain. We were totally undecided on how we were going to deal with this weather. We were going to camp at Ellis Beach north of Cairns but the weather forecast is not good. So we have decided not to go to Cooktown nor camp at Ellis Beach but tomorrow will move over to Granite Gorge Nature Park about 11 kms out of Mareeba and base ourselves here for a week and take a cabin in Cairns the night before we fly out. We could not afford to pack up a wet camper to be stored for 2 weeks. The weather forecast for Mareeba is not as wet and it looks like we will have a dry Sunday to do the pack up.
Our next stop was Crater Lakes National Park and Lake Eacham.
Jungle Fowl rooster in the National Park, after we left Herberton, we saw two more Jungle Fowl very much like the Asian variety in the bush. They are wild fowl. Very long in the legs.
The lake water was a green blue colour and quite clear. This was a large fish near the surface.
The next stop of Yungaburra and Tinaroo Dam
How the weather deteriorated during lunch.
Yungaburra was a quaint village set out town. It is now very popular with the day trippers for coffee.
No platypus out today in the cold and wet, they are all tucked up watching DVD's.
Next on our drive is Curtain Fig National Park.
Beautiful walk way around the tree. It is massive with a lot of aerial roots.
A very beech tree look.
Birds were teasing – flitting about in the canopy.
It was so high up, I couldn’t tell what it was until after I took the photo. It’s my little friend the Boatbill – the uncommon one (well that’s two in two days – I don’t think so)
I can see why he is named a boat bill because from underneath that is the shape of his bill.
Our afternoon ended with a couple of hours at the Herberton Village Museum.
It is a whole village of restored buildings in a village set up and within each building are museum items specific to the type of building.
Back in school – it looked like my class room
Although, Nip and Fluff were missing. (dog and cat if these were not your first readers)
Below – Ada’s Frock Salon
We will never see handmade like this again. This quality of clothing is now long gone.
All the toys of yester year were there. All the favourites of our childhood.
In the coach house, the first fully restored funeral carriage that I have seen. Including the black feather head dress for the white horses. What a way to make your final journey.
This is a Furphy’s Water cart. Furphy were famous for making cast iron – based in Victoria.
I loved their slogan
Good – Better – Best
Never let it rest
Till your good is better
and your better is best
Indian Prince Motor cycle – one of the maintenance guys started it up – absolutely fantastic.
I like that a lot of the cars are not restored but as is condition.
A dispensing pharmacy, not like to day where the pharmacist is a retail assistant.
.Elderslie House has just opened to the public after a long restoration. What a privileged life you would have led as a member of this family living this house.
The whole house was just beautiful. Lovely wide veranda’s. What was unusual that it was split level which is very uncommon for a house of this age. It was because at the original location they hit solid rock and had to step the house down.
So we can forget what I said about the outdoor museum in SA – this is far the best museum that I have been too. It is privately owned – loved it.
We headed back to camp through the mist and rain. We were totally undecided on how we were going to deal with this weather. We were going to camp at Ellis Beach north of Cairns but the weather forecast is not good. So we have decided not to go to Cooktown nor camp at Ellis Beach but tomorrow will move over to Granite Gorge Nature Park about 11 kms out of Mareeba and base ourselves here for a week and take a cabin in Cairns the night before we fly out. We could not afford to pack up a wet camper to be stored for 2 weeks. The weather forecast for Mareeba is not as wet and it looks like we will have a dry Sunday to do the pack up.
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