5/9/17 Strangles

 Today we headed into Kuranda for a look , it's been quite a while since we have looked around town. Finding a shady parking spot was easy , it was a bit away from the main area and near the Barron River Walk . We decided to go for a walk first , the Barron River has a weir and backs the water up nicely , the walk follows the bank down the river to near the railway station .

 There's plenty of trees & vines growing alongside the river , and everywhere else as well - it is the town in the rainforest after all . Some of the tree's & vine's are out flowering , here's a few .

 After reaching the railway station , we crossed the bridge and had a look at the station - it's one of a kind !

 Butterflies love it here as well , there are hundreds , here's a Ulysses .

 We wandered past the hotel and up the street passing many of the tourist shops , clothing , hats , jewellery , opals & food of all descriptions .

 After having our gourmet banana rolls , we headed down to Barron Falls for a look .

 We skipped the other 2 lookouts and instead headed back toward Mareeba , turning off toward Stoney Creek Campground , it's in Barron Falls National Park , we thought we may have been able to get out to Stoney Creek Falls , but the road out there from the campground isn't for public use .
 Next stop was out to Clohesy Creek and some Figtree's . The track in was bitumen , then stopped abruptly , turning to gravel and then the first creek crossing - a couple of vehicles were there camping.

 Not much further down the track we crossed the creek again , and again - 5 times in all .

 Arriving at the carpark , we stopped not taking much notice of anything in particular till we moved away from the ute . The biggest strangler fig we've seen was no more than 10m from us - this tree has killed the original host tree and is now almost 15m across the base !!!
 There's a walking track looping around through the rainforest , and was a pleasant walk .



 It took us to a Woodhen's leaf pile - where they incubate their eggs - this mound was about 8m across the base and 2m tall !!

 The trees in this section were tall and straight , reaching for the light .



 The boardwalk came back round to the fig beside the ute , the photo doesn't do it justice .

 We looked for another track that would have taken us back to Davies Creek Falls , but couldn't find it  so headed back out and back to the van .

  After a cold night ( 9 degrees ) , it got up to 31 degrees , while we were in the rainforest it was only 25 degrees - very pleasant .

 Here's a map link :- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D39v4UJZMC3PFfUFCwLbKmEjYwM&usp=sharing