Atherton, Qld August 6th 2013
Atherton, Qld August 6th 2013 When you leave Undara and head east, you effectively leave any semblance of the outback. You start to climb a bit, up past Mt Garnett, and then it starts to get serious with lots of climbing and twisting and turning up through rainforest until you get to Ravenshoe. On the way through, we stopped at Innot Springs, supposed to be a hot spring fed creek to splash about in. What you have is a caravan park that has sucked the creek dry to feed its six(yes 6) swimming pools with varying degrees of hot water. For only $10 a head you can get a day pass, or you can dig a hole in the creek bed and sit in that. We saw some people sitting in mud puddles near the bridge, so we took the third option: drove straight on and dreamt about Mataranka and Katherine springs. We stopped at Ravenshoe for a cuppa and a bit of a look around. We found a fabulous olde worlde milk bar / café which had fantastic coffee and even better jam drops, fresh out of the oven. They...