Endeavour Falls Tourist Park 15-09-11

 

 

Happy 5th Birthday Belle!  I hope you have a wonderful party.  I’m sorry Pa and I won’t be there, but we’ll see you soon.

Hi Jenine, Peter sends his best.  Hehe so do we all.  I hope you have enjoyed the blog.

We travelled on a pink road today.  The colours of the soils are amazing, the wonderful red that is associated with the centre through orange to pink, there are also patches of white. 

The vegetation is changing too, the trees are getting larger and there is an understory of shrubbery in the bush instead of spinifex.

Road works are huge on this road, I don’t think I have ever seen so much plant in action.  The QLD government is spending a fortune out here. 

We are lucky enough to see some goannas on the road and are careful not to run over them as they scurry out of our way.

We stopped at a place called the Red Lily Lagoon.  This is a very large (some kms) lagoon filled with the red lotus lily, it must be an amazing sight when they are all in flower.  We have come at the end of their flowering, but there are a few flowers left.  There is a lot of damage around the edge of the lagoon made by wild pigs, they dig up an amazing amount of soil in their rooting about.

We stopped at Laura for lunch where Greg and Wanda caught up with some friends. Laura is quite a pretty little town with large mango trees lining the street.  The mangos are not ripe yet though mores the pity. 

The Quinkan legends come from here and there is an interesting information centre.  Just out of town of town there are some rock paintings where the story keeper is a ‘white fella’. 

The picture on the right is the jail, at one time they had 18 aborigines chained together in this small space.  Some aborigines from here were sent to victoria as trackers to track the Kelly gang.

We have some fun on this road, there are patches where it is just like a roller coaster.  As we neared our destination we came around a bend and there was an incredible valley, (Mt Unbelievable – or as Greg said – Mt Bloody Unbelievable.  Hehe) with a steep winding (bitumen) road running through it.  Unfortunately there are no pictures since it was too dangerous to stop anywhere.  It was beautiful.

Arrived at endeavour Tourist Park where we will stay the night.  Tomorrow we have a date with Willie for a guided tour through his country.