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The camp site at Charters Towers was as good as it gets so we stayed for five days. We were in full sunshine every day so we didn't need electricity. We had plenty of town water and amenities nearby. The caravan park also provided the occasional entertainment.
Ignorance is bliss!
The birds who live up there couldn't care less about the 33,000 volt wires.
Our next stop was a little town called Greenvale that sprang up when mining started in the district. It almost became a ghost town when the mining moved away. More recently, somebody purchased the whole town from the mining company and restored it (restored the town, not the mine). Now that mining is returning, things are looking up - well MOST things are looking up. The mobile phone reception is so weak that you have to stand (or sit) in exactly the right spot to get your mobile phone to work. Unfortunately, the table and chairs that were put there had just been painted and nobody left a "wet paint" sign.
No I didn't, but it was a close shave.
I was waiting outside the shop for Connie, and I was peering intently through the window at the inside of the shop, when Connie returned and quickly snapped this picture. I won't forgive her.
IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AT ALL.
Now I've seen it all.... a couple of weeks ago I saw a tree covered in bicycles. Now I've found a "Sausage Tree" in Greenvale. It does have a botanical name but only kasi will know that.
The caravan park at Greenvale had plenty of pets including horses, sheep and a pet crow that will sit beside you and chatter away - as long as you have food. The sheep are called something that sounded like "Daupers" or "Dorpers" (help kasi). Apparently they never need to be shorn - the wool just falls off. The little fella in the pic was only two hours old. So whats the value in these sheep? must be meat I guess.
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Between Greenvale and Mount Garnet I noticed a fuel
warning light on the dash which suggested that my fuel filter was blocked.
As the Landcruiser continued to run normally I thought I would have it
checked out at Mount Garnet
which was only 60 to 70 kilometers away.
Shock, horror, this is all there was at Mount Garnet. We stayed the night
and considered it was safe to continue on to Atherton the next morning and get
it serviced there.
I was pleasantly surprised at Atherton when ROB CAHILL AUTOMOTIVE fitted a new fuel filter and reset the warning light. It took just 45 minutes and cost $95. That seemed very fair to me and certainly less than the Toyota dealer would have charged just for the fuel filter (I have learnt NOT to go to Toyota dealers if I can avoid it).
After spending a month or so in the dry dust of "Aussie outback" the green landscape on the Atherton Tablelands was a shock to the system, and so was the damp, cool, cloudy conditions that we ran into.
On the Atherton Tablelands there are so many waterfalls that we got
"waterfalled out" and I lost track of the names of them all.
The one on the
right is a bit more memorable because the backpackers enjoy skinnydipping in it.
It is Milla Milla Falls.
After their nude bathing the backpackers had lunch - in the carpark. Very versatile, flexible and resourceful but not a bit shy.
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