After walks and breakfast, it was all into the Cruiser for a 'Tour de Tablelands'. First stop was Yungaburra, where we walked the streets and had mornos at Coffee and Clay café. It was then onto Malanda, where we perused the streets and admired the old buildings.
We then decided it was time to visit the Nerada Tea Plantation to see the tea making process and then have lunch. Last time we were there we had a delicious chicken soup. So, we arrived and were all set to do the self-guided tour of the processing plant, but got to the end of the path to find it blocked off with a laminated note saying that tours of the processing plant were no longer offered. Oh well, since we were here, we decided to have an early lunch.
Fully satiated, we intended visiting Gallo Dairyland, a chocolate and cheesery, however, it is not open on a Tuesday. Bugger, last time we arrived later in the afternoon and the chocolate processing had finished and they were putting the finishing touches to the cheese making.
Not to worry. Onwards to Atherton to do a spot of grocery and grog shopping before returning to the vans via the Historical Yungaburra Curtain Fig, aka The Big Fig . The boys ventured out onto Tinaroo lake in the kayaks, before meeting Dave, Noy, Martin and Heather at the picnic shelter at the bottom of the road from the van park. Dave had pre-cooked some snags and onions, so we had a kind of 'sausage sizzle' and a catch up. A good night was had by all and it was great to see such nice people we hadn't seen for ages. It was getting a tad cool, so we broke camp just after 6:30pm.
A great day on the road in North Queensland.
Sunrise over the lake
Avenue of Honour
Lake Tinaroo
The resident Curlews
Yungaburra War Memorial/Cenotaph
St Mark's Anglican Church Yungaburra
St Patrick's Catholic Church Yungaburra
A nice looking building at Yungaburra
Part of an old wall at Yungaburra
Yungaburra pub back/beer garden
Pub lounge room
Pub dining room
Shops on the right under the pub were once rooms
Our mornos stop
Peeramon pub has had a facelift
Malanda Falls; just above the green sign is the 1967 flood level mark
Malanda Falls
Some art deco at Malanda
Malanda
Under the verandah of the BIG Pub at Malanda
The Historical Yungaburra Curtain Fig
The boys on their paddle
Sunset
Greg and Noy
Dave, Noy, Heather, Martin, Noeleene, Wendy, Greg, & Bob
Avenue of Honour sculpture at night
