Heading down to Mareeba we stayed at the Ringer's Rest farm. We knew the farm had horses but we didn't quite know how friendly they were.
This fella was standing outside our door when we opened our caravan door.
Hello Mr Edd
This fella was standing outside our door when we opened our caravan door.
Hello Mr Edd
I think he was waiting for something.....
Aww dad the tyre on my bike is flat! Now I can't ride it!
And time for everyone to get in the action
So with a hard day of keeping all the horses happy it was time for some light refreshments, a couple of tunes,
and to watch the sun go down on another beautiful day in Australia.
The next morning we woke to the distant sounds of gas burners
In all there were about half a dozen balloons that took to the skies
They flew right over our camp
and landed in the paddock next to us
After a fun start to the day we decided to head off in the direction of Kuranda and Cairns to look at Barron Falls and there is also a hydro electric station that might be fun to look at. So we hit the road.
The walkway down to Barron Falls is a series of rain forrest sky walks
apparently pythons make their home in these plants. Nyaaaa I'm outta here!
Hello Karen
Heading down towards the lookout and the train station
Another way of getting from Kuranda to Cairns is by using the cable car
Construction of the Cairns-Kuranda Railway was, and still is, an engineering feat of tremendous magnitude.
Desperate tin miners on the Wild River near Herberton were unable to obtain supplies and were on the verge of famine. The boggy road leading inland from Port Douglas was proving impossible. As a result, the settlers at Herberton raised loud and angry voices and began agitation for a railway to the coast.
On May 10th 1886, the then Premier of Queensland Sir Samuel Griffith, used a silver spade to turn the first sod. Celebrations involving almost the entire population of Cairns lasted all that day and long into the night. Construction was by three separate contracts for lengths of 13.2km, 24.5 km, and 37.4km. The line was to total 75.1km and surmounts the vast Atherton tablelands leading to Mareeba.
Large portions of this railway had to be dug by hand which was pretty difficult working on mountains with a gradient of 45 degrees. More information on this project can be found by pasting the following link to your browser;
http://www.ksr.com.au/History/Pages/KSR.aspx
The start of the railway next to Barron Falls
Barron Falls is but a trickle at the moment. But
Bottom of the falls at a trickle
and back on the road we head for Cairns and see the hydro facility that this Barron River feeds.
We come down the moutain towards Cairns
and this little fella poked his head out of the bush to say hello
The scenery here is really quite beautiful
We arrive at the Barron River down stream
Where we find groups of people going down the river in rafts. Because it is the dry season the river is really quite tame and safe. In the wet season certain areas of Queensland have reported up to 7 metres of rainfall in the year which changes the water ways dramatically and these people wouldn't be doing this!
Groups waiting to go
The Barron River in dry season which would be full and flowing in the wet season.
I have shown the next picture before that was from another waterfall/gorge but it gives an idea of who in society are the risk takers and who either end up permanently injured or dead as a result.
These fellas fall into that age group and category. They thought it would be a good idea to jump from this height into the low running Barron River without any knowledge of what rocks were beneath them!
One word might describe these fellas. Fools.
So we decided not to see what eventuated and hit the road back to camp.
Tomorrow we are heading back to Atherton to have another jam at The Shed.
Time to fly
Aww dad the tyre on my bike is flat! Now I can't ride it!
And time for everyone to get in the action
So with a hard day of keeping all the horses happy it was time for some light refreshments, a couple of tunes,
and to watch the sun go down on another beautiful day in Australia.
The next morning we woke to the distant sounds of gas burners
In all there were about half a dozen balloons that took to the skies
They flew right over our camp
and landed in the paddock next to us
After a fun start to the day we decided to head off in the direction of Kuranda and Cairns to look at Barron Falls and there is also a hydro electric station that might be fun to look at. So we hit the road.
The walkway down to Barron Falls is a series of rain forrest sky walks
apparently pythons make their home in these plants. Nyaaaa I'm outta here!
Hello Karen
Heading down towards the lookout and the train station
Another way of getting from Kuranda to Cairns is by using the cable car
Construction of the Cairns-Kuranda Railway was, and still is, an engineering feat of tremendous magnitude.
Desperate tin miners on the Wild River near Herberton were unable to obtain supplies and were on the verge of famine. The boggy road leading inland from Port Douglas was proving impossible. As a result, the settlers at Herberton raised loud and angry voices and began agitation for a railway to the coast.
On May 10th 1886, the then Premier of Queensland Sir Samuel Griffith, used a silver spade to turn the first sod. Celebrations involving almost the entire population of Cairns lasted all that day and long into the night. Construction was by three separate contracts for lengths of 13.2km, 24.5 km, and 37.4km. The line was to total 75.1km and surmounts the vast Atherton tablelands leading to Mareeba.
Large portions of this railway had to be dug by hand which was pretty difficult working on mountains with a gradient of 45 degrees. More information on this project can be found by pasting the following link to your browser;
http://www.ksr.com.au/History/Pages/KSR.aspx
The start of the railway next to Barron Falls
Barron Falls is but a trickle at the moment. But
This is in full flight!
Bottom of the falls at a trickle
and back on the road we head for Cairns and see the hydro facility that this Barron River feeds.
We come down the moutain towards Cairns
We came across this old WW11 plane at the Kuranda markets on the way
and this little fella poked his head out of the bush to say hello
Ahhhhh..... Bunning my favourite store in the entire world!
The scenery here is really quite beautiful
We arrive at the Barron River down stream
Where we find groups of people going down the river in rafts. Because it is the dry season the river is really quite tame and safe. In the wet season certain areas of Queensland have reported up to 7 metres of rainfall in the year which changes the water ways dramatically and these people wouldn't be doing this!
Groups waiting to go
The Barron River in dry season which would be full and flowing in the wet season.
Ello, ello, ello beautiful.... :>)
I have shown the next picture before that was from another waterfall/gorge but it gives an idea of who in society are the risk takers and who either end up permanently injured or dead as a result.
These fellas fall into that age group and category. They thought it would be a good idea to jump from this height into the low running Barron River without any knowledge of what rocks were beneath them!
So we decided not to see what eventuated and hit the road back to camp.
Tomorrow we are heading back to Atherton to have another jam at The Shed.
Time to fly
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