
Northern & Southern Queensland Scenery & Landscapes

Map of Northern Queensland Route

Map of Southern Queensland Route

Map of Northern Queensland Route with perspective
Daintree River & Village
Rental Car #3 - sucked
River Cruise along the Daintree River
Swamp Lily (Crinum pedunculatum) Daintree River - Queensland
Daintree River
4m Croc! Difficult to see
Mist over the Daintree Rainforest
I highly recommend Boatman Nature Tours
I stared at this for 15 minutes hoping it was a mammal! It was a spider....grrr
Cooktown and Surrounding Areas, Queensland
Termite Mount near Lakeland
Outback views near Lakeland
Shipton Flats
Very remote Shiptons Flat
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Lewis & Charlie's 4x4s at Shiptons Flat
Annan River near Cooktown
Shipton Flat - Lewis & Charlie's forest and home
Lewis in his forest
Lewis
Annan River
Lions Den Cooktown
Annan Gorge
Cooktown QLD
Keating's Lagoon Cooktown
Cooktown
Great Barrier Reef!
Endeavour River in Cooktown
Bush Fire in the outback!
Black Mountain Cooktown
Annan Gorge
Drive to Lakeside
The vast Queensland Outback
Atherton Tablelands and Surrounds, Qld
Possum Valley Cabins
Joey of Lumholtz's Tree Roo - mom killed by car
My talk in Malanda on Biodiversity in Thailand
Paul's amazing truck at Possum Valley
Bromfield Swamp/crater
Angus Emmott's Amazing In-house Museum!
Ancient boomerangs
Alan & Paul & Angus
Crater Lake NP
Big Mitchell Creek Reserve - Queensland
Mount Hypipamee National Park - Queensland
Mount Hypipamee National Park - Queensland
Sadly it looks like duckweed has invaded permanently
The magical flower petals that the Golden Bowerbird loved so much
Alan grew these flowers himself at his home
Curtain Fig NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland
Undara Lava Tubes Volcanic NP, Queensland
Cane toads are not the only invasive species in Australia
Champaign sunset tour at Undara!
Views of the Undara Outback
Undara Lava Tubes
Gondwana rainforest in a collapsed lava tube
Nice trek up and around that cindercone
Mammal list at the visitor center at Undara
Wonga Vine (Pandorea pandorana)
Oreilly's at Lamington NP Queensland
Oreilly's at Lamington NP, Queensland
The fog over the Lamington National Park Rainforest - sublime
Burn scars from the 2019 fire in the Eucalyptus forests at the lower elevation of Lamington
The plane that crashed
Grass Tree
Mount Warning
So lovely
Most beautiful forest road anywhere
Strangler fig and its victim!
Ouch!!!
Mocha was my daily drug of choice during the entire trip! From $4 to $6 AUS - mostly delicious!
Countryside surrounding Lamington NP, Qld
Binna Burra Lamington NP - Queensland
Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea glauca) with spike Binna Burra Lamington NP - Queensland
Binna Burra Lamington NP - Queensland
Magnetic Island & Townsville, Qld
Gunnery at Fort Point
View of Townsville from the ferry
Descent to the coast of Townsville from the Tablelands
Gold Coast, Qld
Road to Byron Bay & Pottsville Conservation Area - New South Wales
Byron Bay Lighthouse
Banksia
Classic old Queensland mansion in the countryside heading toward the Gold Coast
Pottsville Environmental Park - New South Wales
Fern Trail
Brisbane, Queensland
My bed in the Brisbane International Terminal
Boondall Wetlands, Brisbane
So comfy! Approximately 41 nights out of 54 were spent on this sleeping pad in my rental cars. Really I would not have changed that at all! The freedom of sleeping where ever I wanted whenever I wanted was fantastic.
Rental Car #1
Blue is the choice for the bowerbirds in Lamington
View of suburban Brisbane from Toohey Park
I bit my tongue!
Cairnes Harbor - Queensland
Cairns has grown but it is still a relatively small city. A nice city
Heading out to sea
Springbrook NP & Numinbah Road various Locations, Queensland
Springbrook Falls NP, Qld
Numinbah Road various Locations - Queensland
Numinbah Road various Locations - Queensland
Granite Gorge, Mareeba, Queensland
Mareeba, Granite Gorge - Queensland
Awesome rock formations at Granite Canyon, Mareeba
So cuddly
Davies Creek NP, Malanda Falls NP Atherton Tablelands, Qld
Malanda Falls NP, Atherton Tablelands
Davies Creek NP, Atherton Tablelands, Qld
Rental Car #3
Basalt Road, Qld - the road that was taken from Undara Volcanic NP to Townsville