Hello, Deb here, can’t believe it is day 15. I feel really relaxed. I always remember when I am away camping how relaxing it is. It is like I forget the rest of the time! 🙂
We haven’t been blessed with the best weather while we have been away, has been cold and wet in places where it should have been warm. East and central Australia are having more rain than normal. I heard the other day it hasn’t been this wet since 1998, not sure if that is correct, but the landscape is a lot greener than normal. Has been good for the cattle farmers but not so good for the cane growers as they can’t pick the cane. It will help replenish the dams and the water table. Our photos would look a lot better with blue skies, but the weather hasn’t really hindered our holiday. I love our little cubby house on wheels.
I really like where we are staying, it is a bit like an ecological resort CP. We went on a tour from the CP today to the Undara Lava Tubes and Kalkani Crater. There were 20 of us ranging in age from 14 to 80, most would have been about 70. Grey nomads are keeping the country towns of Australia ticking over, so many of us on the road!
We went to the Kalkani Crater first, it is between 200-400 Million years old, amazing. We have been to a few Volcanoes, none like this one, it was covered in vegetation, the others were active, obviously makes a difference!! Lol It took about an hour and a half to walk up and around the edge of the Crater, I enjoyed the walk.
They gave us a cuppa and piece of cake and then we were off to the Lava Tubes. We have been to the Santa Cruz lava tunnels in the Galapagos , but were not aware of the ones up here until a friend mentioned it to Greg. It was interesting, we got to go into 2 (caves/tube) tunnels. They are formed when the lava flows from the volcano, the lava on the outside cools first and stops but the lava inside is still hot and keeps flowing, and you are left with a really large hollow tube. It was interesting inside the tubes you could see the layers of lava that had cooled at different times. A bit like the layers of an onion that had the middle removed. We saw a few microbats in the second tube, they were tiny, I had never seen any before. I enjoyed seeing the tubes, made me appreciate the volume of lava that must erupt to form these tubes.
After lunch we took a walk to Elizabeth Creek, just behind the CP it is spring fed and was running fast, I guess a lot of water has been added to it from the rain, was rather boggy but we ventured as close to it as we could get was fun and muddy and I managed to stay upright!
We have ordered pizza for tea from the CP, by all accounts they are very good, so we will see. 🙂
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