Atherton Tablelands

Pretty stunning hey? This is the view from a lookout right in the middle of Atherton. They grow heaps of different crops round here. Apart from the obligatory sugarcane and bananas, there’s acres of fruit trees, avocados, corn, tea, coffee and stuff we didn’t even recognise. The cattle have big smiles on their faces with the lush green countryside. Only bad thing for us was the temperature. With this elevation comes the need for a blanket at night. It was quite a shock.

Then you get into the waterfall side of things. There must be a couple of dozen waterfalls to stop and visit as you wind your way south to the coast near Innisfail. After all things historical yesterday, we tried to keep the overload of waterfalls to a minimum, so we just did three. Here’s a pic of Millaa Millaa falls.

MIllaa Millaa Falls

Then we went directly to the best one – Josephine Falls, just at the base of the imposing Mount Bartle Frere (1622m) which is Queensland’s highest peak. Thank goodness John has already climbed this peak a couple of times otherwise I’m sure the boys would have found themselves at the top. I was exhausted just looking at it. Anyway, back to Josephine Falls…..

Josephine Falls

You can swim in the clear blue water here and slide down the slippery (derr) rocks to the pool below. Which of course the boys did – many times.

Rock sliding at Josephine Falls

It wasn’t all waterfalls today though. I finally saw a sugarcane train! I made John stop just for the photo opportunity.

Sugarcane train near Innisfail.