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Australia
Whenever you mention overseas that you are from Australia, people think “the opera house, skippy and the beaches” but Australia is not only that, Australia is the bush, the outback, the country people, and its wild life and lots more. Ten years ago we joined one of the best four wheel drive club in the country. Being members of the Subaru Club, we have met exceptional people, whom we consider our second family; we learnt how to go camping, four wheel driving and more, now is time to put our skills to the test. We will be travelling to the rainforest, the outback, the world famous great barrier reef, we will go through some remote areas with rugged terrain, we’ll see lots of wild life including the legendary salt water crocodile, furthermore the famous road trains, they are 53 metres long, of course meet the country people, we will be visiting cattle stations; one of them is one and a half million acres and obviously we will be going to a lot of country pubs so we can enjoy a coldie while we meet some of the locals and some adventurous travellers, we are very excited and cannot wait longer to “Go and See Australia”......well...part of it.

25 July 2010

Undara

We spent few days in Cairns servicing the vehicle, reorganising and restocking for our next journey, to our disappointment we had some problems with Toyota Cairns and it took much longer for the vehicle to be ready than we had expected, also we had to take the four wheel drive to ARB because of noises coming from the snorkel, but we still managed to have a relaxing afternoon at Ellis beach as per Julie’s prescription and had dinner down town Cairns, which was very nice.

THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK ADVENTURE (SAVANNAH WAY)
Early in the morning we left Cairns and started our Australian Outback Experience, we stopped at Mareeba, the Australian's coffee capital and had a beautiful coffee, our destination for the night was Undara. We stopped at Little Millstream Falls for a walk; we continued to Atherton and quickly visited the Crystal Museum (gems exhibition).

Mareeba coffee world


Little Millstream Falls


Atherton Crystal World


After all the driving we could not resist to have a revitalizing dip in the thermal pools located at Innot Hot Spring, then after we headed to a beautiful place called Undara. After our setting up we booked ourselves for the Lava Tubes Tour for the next morning. After dinner we went to the communal bush fire where every night there are different activities, tonight we had sing-along and it was good fun.
Very early in the morning went to the Lava tubes tour which was very interesting and informative; we learnt that Undara means a long way in Aboriginal language. One of the lava flows from Undara extends more than 160 kilometres making it the longest lava flow on the planet. The Undara eruption was around 190,000 years ago, it was amazing to see how well kept they are, we really recommend to visit this place.
We left Undara and headed to Cobbold Gorge, we stopped at Georgetown to update the blog a bit more, re-fuelled and had a quick bite. The Off Road Granny Flat was exposed to its first dust test, we didn’t have many problems thanks to all the dust filters Gabriel installed on all the air vents, so far so good.

Undara
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