It is now time to get serious. Our up and down and again along the Wet Tropics of North Queensland was beautiful and enjoyable and it’s now time to move on. We want to see so much more in the north and need to be gone at around early October to escape the heat and wet. Two more months to go for about 8,000 kilometers. We’ll see.
First destination is Mount Surprise along the Savannah way (Gulf Developmental Road). The first part is great, lots of roadwork to put another 25 cm on top of an already perfectly good road. They say that road trains frequent this area but apart from some regular size trucks to carry the bitumen for the road we only see local and caravanning traffic.
We pass the first ever wind park we have seen on our trip. Australia seems to be more into solar and hydro energy than in wind energy.
As soon as we climbed over the great dividing range the weather changed, from the drizzle in the morning to perfect blue skies and the accompanying dry landscape. The difference is massive. The green rolling hills and lush grass, trees and shrubs have been exchanged by dry grass, plenty of termite mounds and endless gum trees. The only continuum is the dead kangaroos on the side of the road.
Then we come into dinosaur world. Past Undura where lava tubes have been formed many years ago, the hot springs of Innot and into Bedrock, the town of the Flintstones. This is a beautiful rugged country. Unfortunately we cannot visit the amazing places of Cobbold Gorge, Undura Lava Tubes and Gemstone fields because of our loving dogs. We get a lot in return but perhaps another trip without pets and a 4 wheel drive would open up other opportunities.
We settled for the night at Bedrock Camping in Mount Surprise where Marjo found silver while naked visiting Wilma and I visited Fred.
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