Water Falls, Wind Farms and Crater Lakes

We established our camp at Malanda in the Atherton Tablelands and watched the rain douse our our camp fire and unfortunately the rain was relentless over the coming days. We had eagerly anticipated seeing a Tree Kangaroo (wildlife bingo game) but apparently they have all drowned in this miserable RAINforest weather. Lots of water, lots of waterfalls ;-). Two such examples, Dinner Falls and Millstream Falls (Australia’s widest).

What would improve the weather – wind! Off to Windy Hill we drove and found 20 odd wind turbines to park under. The name Windy Hill should be amended to Rainy Cloudy Windy Hill and as long as they’re at it, paint the turbines something other than cloud colour ;-)

Finally Mt Hypipamee (hooray!) National Park - after carrying Zavier some 1km through the mountain we got to the crater lake. 60 metres sheer rock cliff down to a Shrek green lake. On the walk (carry) back to the car park we passed some back packers with basketball sized rocks to drop into the lake, if only we'd thought of that I wouldn't have had to carry Zavier back to the car!