Atherton Tablelands

After Jean went up to Cape Tribulation and I got back from my dive trip, we went off for a couple of days to the Atherton Tablelands. We went to see the rain forest at Mamu where the state parks people had built a sky walk over the rain forest canopy after an area had been knocked down by a huge Cat 5 Cyclone in 2006.






Then we went through rolling farm land on the top of the Great Dividing Range mountains. There are several huge strangler fig trees in the National Park areas. This one was called the Cathedral fig, as you can see, it's absolutely massive. Supposedly, 500 years old.








The town of Milla Milla was just as I'd always imagined the Australian outback. A store that sold everything from food to hardware and gasoline, a pub and a church.





After touring the waterfalls that dot the area, we stopped in a B&B in a picturesque town called Yungerburra - home of the duckbilled platypus. Despite extensive searching, they remained un-photographed ( at least by me!). Then it was back to Cairns for our last night before heading back. I'm hoping that our flight from Sydney to LA will be on the new Airbus that we saw on it's first roll out when we were in Toulouse a few years ago. Like all good things this too has to come to an end, but as this trip finishes up, it's not too early to start dreaming of the next one..........