Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Rollingstone Qld July 21, 2015 Not far from where we are in Rollingstone is the Paluma Range NP, which has a couple of creeks and waterholes billed as being Townsville summer playground - mainly because it's considered 'safe' from crocodiles, although no one will every give a guarantee. Paluma is a tiny town at the top of the Mt Spec (860metres), just why its there I have no idea. Its miles from anywhere and at the top of a 22km long narrow, twisty climb. The town itself looks half-dead, the pub for instance, promises to be open on Saturday afternoons and stay open until 8pm if more than six people are in attendance. The road itself, is a piece of work, built basically by hand in the 1930s by labourers lucky enough to get onto the governments work creation scheme during the depression. Half way up, the road crosses the Little Crystal Creek with a Roman style stone bridge. There is a small waterfall and a small, fairly cool waterhole in which a few peop...

Rollingstone Qld July 20, 2015 Our bad-weather hoodoo caught up with us again: today is 100% cloudy and threatening rain. The wind has picked up and you start to wonder why you are parked right on a beach. Not to worry, we wandered off in the car to have a look at the country between here and Ingham (no - nothing to do with the chicken kings), but didn't make it out of the park before i just had to snap these huge seed pods hanging from the trees. Seed pod. Caravan Park, Rollingstone Qld Next stop was just up the road near the highway. They have huge fields of pineapples and one of the fields is just starting to come into fruit, so we stopped and took some snaps. As it turned out we were right next to the highway with only a railway line between us. There are railway lines all over the place up here in Queensland especially because of the sugar cane, so one gets a bit complacent about crossing them. But wait! This one is the main line north and as a small truck came to an...