Atherton Tablelands

“When you set out on your journey… 

pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge… 

that the summer mornings are many…”  

- Excerpts from “Ithaca” by Constantin Cavafy

Mr.Rainbowat Mt.Uncle Distillery Banana Plantation

Have just spent a couple of days full of adventure touring the Atherton Tablelands with Fletcher & my new kitten, Atherton. We enjoyed beautiful summer mornings amazing natural wonders, volcanic lakes & craters, more rainforest paths, picturesque townships, banana & coffee plantations and the Granite Gorge (where we got to hand feed Rock Wallabies).

Lake Eacham :: Volcanic Crater Lake

Curtain Fig Tree

Also found an interesting surrealist Outback Landscape exhibition (of all things to find in the tropical north!)  at the Regional Gallery.

The Big Road North!

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

 

Mr.Rainbow has been packed, un-packed, reconfigured & re-packed a number of times and in a number of different ways in the past couple of weeks. We’ve journeyed a few thousand kilometers since the last posting… 1550km from Silverton to Lismore and another 2000km from there to Cairns. We’ve even had a few “houseguests” along the way, the human kind as well as the critter kind…
 I have been really pleased with my human travel partners, Fletcher & Benny Mac are both such chilled, fun, easy going, companionable & considerate men. It really made the trip!
 Am also really pleased with my newly adopted kitten, Atherton, he's another really chilled out dude and has adapted himself to van living very well.

 I found Cairns much too hectic, so I promptly headed for the hills! Started out in Kuranda (amazing creative markets there), watched the Solar Eclipse at Wonga Beach and just spent the last week exploring the World Heritage Listed Daintree Rainforest and Cape Tribulation.
 

Total Solar Eclipse 

 I watched the Solar Eclipse from Wonga Beach with a small gathering of people, what started out as just your average sunrise turned into something quite special when the sky started to darken and the clouds cleared just enough to catch a glimpse of a silver rimmed moon shadow.

It was pretty cool to be able to view such an amazing natural phenomenon. 
P.S. looked nothing like the photoshopped photo above.