Today we left Mareeba and headed 87kms to a little town called Ravenshoe on the Savannah way.
We had decided to stay at the Ravenshoe Hertiage Steam Railway and Travellers rest. (Camps 7 QLD 217) We were greeted by the caretaker that showed us around and booked in for 2 nights on a powered site at $12 per night with gold coin donations for hot showers. They have only opened up the grounds as a permanent camping ground in April this year. Sadly the stem train derailed last year and they were only weeks away from getting it running again much to the disappointment of J.
Our campsite at Ravenshoe, they had just had 7 days of constant rain so was a bit muddy. Here showing the storage boot of the van open.
After setting up we headed out to Millstream falls, Australia's widest waterfall which is only 5km from Ravenshoe. It's a bitumen track down to the look out but very steep on the climb back up to the car park.
We then headed back to the campsite and into town for lunch at the bakery before A had his afternoon sleep.
Saturday 15th July
Finally after 2 cancelled bookings due to the flu we headed out the 145km along the Savannah Way (only an hour and half from Ravenshoe) to the Undara Lava Tubes just before Mt Suprise. Cost was $52.50 per adults and children 4-15 $26.25 This was for the archway tour, it's the easiest tour but not pram friendly as there are about 250 steps. It's a guided tour ( there are no self guided walks through the tubes) which takes approximately 2 hours and you get to see 3 sections of the lava tubes. We had booked the 1pm tour as the 10.30am full.
The Lava tubes were formed by the volcano Undara spilling out lava 190 000 years ago. Its thought the tubes are the longest lava flow from a single volcanic crater on earth. Undara has discovered 19 sections of the tube with many more still to find.
The archway lava tube
The hidden or secret lava tube, if you look closely you can see the hole
Next destination........Townsville/ Airlie Beach
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