After our little 'car' dramas, we weren't sure if we would get to travel any higher than Townsville on the QLD coast. Don't get me wrong, I know there would be a few people out there that would prefer a week in Tennant Creek than Port Douglas (Okay, maybe one person? Anyone?) but Luke and I always thought our trip around Australia in our kombi just wouldn't be complete without travelling through far north Queensland as well.
Driving up the coast from Townsville to Port Douglas, is like stepping into a magical world where everything is sooo green and with the mountains on one side of the road and the ocean on the other, it really is a tropical paradise. Yeah, it rains a lot and it was raining on our trip north bound, but that just adds mystery to the place, as the mist and clouds hang low over the forest covered mountains.
On first view, we thought this thing might have been the cloud maker?
But no, that would be a little too 'Willy Wonker's Chocolate Factory' for the real world -although it did turn out to be apart of another 'sweet' business - a steam chimney from one of the many sugar mills scattered up the coast amongst the hundreds of acres of sugar cane. Yum!
Next stop - Port Douglas!
Yours in the great outdoors,
Odette
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