Sometimes you don’t have to go far to feel you reach the Australian Outback, it’s easy as all the population is gathered along the coastline the rest could be quite untouched, and that’s the case of Davis Creek National Park, one hour drive west of Cairns, 21km north of Kuranda up in the hills.
To reach the park we had first to go through a rough, 7km red, talcum powder-like, earthy, dusty unseal road which gave our white van (us included since the van’ windows were pull down for the heat) a nice reddish tan.
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Despite our blurry sight, we slowly reached the camping area but had to go another 2 km further up through a narrow, winding road on top of the hill in order to reach the Falls Circuit. However, once there, it was finally an easy path through the bush and grass-trees that led us down the lookout over the tremendous, 75 meters Davies Creek Falls which cascades over huge granite boulders..JPG)
Back to the QPSW campground, we found ourselves the perfect picnic spot on a sandy area on the creek’s side, hoping to spot some platypus in the rookpool but the only encounter was with a rat-kangaroo (which looks to me more like an ugly rat, which is not that great while eating) played along by a serenade by some colorful little birds (much better, at least they took my mind away from staring that marsupial).
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This experience makes me arise just a question: what and where is the Australian Outback? Is a harsh, desert land in the middle of this huge continent or a feeling of being somewhere naturally remote?
1 comments:
- At 22/1/10 11:43 PM AdventureRob said...
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I say it's everything in Australia which isn't a city or a small town
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