A big day today so we were up early enough and started at the beginning at the Bamboo Creek Tin Mine. It was a really interesting place to see how tough they did it not so long ago really when mining for the tin in the area.
We then popped into Walker Creek and we were very surprised at how pristine and crystal clear the water was as we walked several kays along the creek. We had a swim at a very beautiful section and that refreshed us for the walk back. Parks said the risk of crocs in the creek was 'low risk' which we debated a it as to what that meant but it was clear to use there were none in the section we swam in!
We got to see a large water monitor sunning himself which was great.
We went to go for a walk into the cascades but they were closed and only the top cascades were open. It was quite a long up hill and very sunny walk and we didnt have our hats or water or anything so we gave it a miss at this stage.
Then we popped into the commercial safari camp for a look, it looked to be quite nice but also very expensive to camp there.
We popped back into camp for a quick lunch then we drove the very rough and corrugated road into the 'lost city' to only find it closed at the end of the road. Baffles us as to why they didnt have a sign up at the start given how bad the road is to get in.
On the way back we stopped at Tabletop Swamp to try and find some birds, which we did but not as many as Karen would have liked.
Then we went to Tolman Falls which were massive and spectacular. They have a look out that is perched out over the cliff for a great view of the falls. We chose to do the loop walk up around the top of the falls back to the car park which was quite a nice bush walk.
We popped into Granite Creek for a look and saw that it also had a long walk to some falls but it was too late in the day and we had already walked nearly 10 klms up and down hills so we decided to save that one for tomorrow morning when its a bit cooler.
We got back to camp and cooked burgers and salad and sweet potato chips for tea, watched the footy then we decided to go for a night walk down to the Wangi Falls to try and capture the stars and waterfall at night.
It was a total fail, plus I wasnt comfortable being on a open platform over hanging the water right next to the croc trap that they trying to capture the salt water croc from this swimming hole. It was pitch black dark and we had little torches......if I was a croc it would be the perfect time to grab a human for a feed!!
Didnt seem to bother Karen at all haha
On the way back we nearly stepped on a snake too so needless to say our night time walks will be very limited.
It was a big day.