Monday 17 August 2009

Atherton Tablelands
















Hi there. Spent last 2 nights in absolute luxury in Mount Quincan luxury treetop retreats for couples- bath spa included with great views. Saw tree kangaroos from balcony and fed paddy melons down below. Had a brill boat tour of lake Barrine, guide feeds wild life at special spots including eeels, turtles and close up and personal with amethyst python in the reeds.

Saw more sightings of platypus on early morning walk (7 pm!) Toured Australia's own tea plantation-Dave really enjoyed that!!! Walked 6km around Lake Barrine-marked path with board walks, just looking at small rat kangaroos when I turned and spotted blake snake by bush, gasped and spooked David-my snake spotter let me down! Fortunately it scuttled away. Apparently, the guide says its up there-no 6 of top ten most venomous. Apparently we were lucky to get a sighting! Just getting over that when decided to do platypus walk again- under the bridge, Dave in front too busy looking for platypuses,,,,,,,behind him on rocks 2 m version of the same black snake. I wet myself and Dave took a picture-typical! Decided to abort walk. Dave needs to watch the path we've decided! Think we'll get back to coast today-much safer I think!

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