Travelling to Abergowie Forest; Broadwater Camp
Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30th August
Although best laid plans were set the night before, things
didn’t go to plan in the morning!! We had prepared to get away early from
Coconut, but a damp evening led to soaking wet chairs the next morning and
delayed get-away. The trip from Cairns
took in Mission Beach
and the stormy parental relations slowly passed as we neared camp. Broadwater
camp was lovely, surrounded by tropical rainforest, and we enjoyed a good fire.
The bush turkeys popped in and out and the next morning large lizard graced us
with it’s presence, demonstrating climbing and camouflage skills!!
Although this camp was restful, it there wasn’t enough to
keep us for longer than a night, so we packed up and headed to Wallaman Falls.
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| Broadwater camp in lush rainforest |
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| The monitor lizard that made a visit |
Wallaman Falls
The big walk
It was great decision to spend a night at Wallaman Falls, although the
information regarding access for camper trailers was confusing, there was
plenty of room. A couple of really good walks led out from the site, the one we
did was down to the falls. This is the highest permanent single
drop waterfall, and it certainly did feel very high!! We seemed to descend
forever (reminding us that what goes down must come back up!) and the walk had
some very steep drops with breath taking views. The return journey was tough,
but we spent the afternoon travelling so were well rested when we arrived at
Proserpine.
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| Wallaman falls |
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| Mountainous lookout beyond the falls |
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| A very steep and jungly walk |
Proserpine
Saturday Sort-out
The camp site at Gunna-Go was spacious with good facilities
and gave us a good opportunity to organise stuff ready for boarding the yacht
at 3pm. We extracted the essentials of house and home from the camper trailer
and took off to Shute Harbour
to meet the Cumberland Charter Yacht people and sleep aboard our floating home
for the first night.
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