Westish of Cairns is a place called the Atherton Tablelands.. it’s rainforesty, and slightly cooler than the coast (temperature wise). We headed there after leaving the whitsundays (600km or something).
There were lots of nice rainforesty waterfally walks to do. These two waterfalls (silver and nandroya) were purty..
and nandroya
Not sure if I’ve talked about strangler fig trees before. Amazing trees really, start off life the size of a mustard seed (or so) somewhere high up in a tree (deposited there by bird / whatever). They then send roots down, and eventually end up strangling the host tree (takes about 100 years or so) and then go on living for a further 300 years. Anyway, most impressive.
This pic is of the Curtain Fig tree. So called because when the host tree died, it fell onto another tree, and so more roots were sent down by the fig, creating this curtain.
And there was also the cathedral fig tree, another massive strangler fig.
We also did oppostite ends (so we didn’t have to return the same way) of a walk in the Misty Mountains. They weren’t misty, and the views weren’t great.. but still.. good to stretch the legs.
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