After the normal morning routine and a quick run through the playground we set off in Pearl to Mareeba, a short 30 minute drive across the Atherton Tablelands. We passed banana, sugar and coffee plantations before arriving at Coffeeworks. This is a coffee roasting and chocolate making business that roasts coffee beans from all around the world as well as a lot of the locally produced beans. We had a run through of the 'coffee story' from planting to harvest, drying and roasting while the kids slurped on some chocolate and cream concoction. Then there was the unlimited tasting to do -there were 3 very excited Davidsons when they saw the chocolate section, with 12 different flavours of chocolate, which they launched into with gusto (and oddly enough with much more concentration and enthusiasm than the previous hour of school work!). Mum and dad had 21 coffees to choo
se from including full roasted, half roasted, imported, blends of all the above and flavoured coffees, which we sipped away on, shared with a bit of chocolate. After about 1/2 an hour we were all feeling a bit sick and needed to rest the the tummies so set off to see the amazing collection of over 2000 items of coffee paraphinalia in the museum next door. From there we watched a batch of beans being
roasted and by this stage the kids sugar high had kicked in, Dad (who never drinks coffee) was feeling rather strung out and mum had purchased a few gifts so we headed to our camping ground for lunch. We were lucky enough to get into a heavily booked holiday park in Atherton and the kids were soon in the pool. At 4 pm we drove a short way up the road to the Bat Hospital, a rehabilitation centre for injured mega and microbats. Most of the bats we saw were fruit bats (flying foxes) as well as a few tiny insect eating microbats. We watched some wee orphan bats (mums died from paralysis tick) getting bottlefed and learnt a lot about these interesting creatures. By now it was getting dark so it was back to our campsite for dinner and a quick game of cards before spending our last night with Pearl : (
After the normal morning routine and a quick run through the playground we set off in Pearl to Mareeba, a short 30 minute drive across the Atherton Tablelands. We passed banana, sugar and coffee plantations before arriving at Coffeeworks. This is a coffee roasting and chocolate making business that roasts coffee beans from all around the world as well as a lot of the locally produced beans. We had a run through of the 'coffee story' from planting to harvest, drying and roasting while the kids slurped on some chocolate and cream concoction. Then there was the unlimited tasting to do -there were 3 very excited Davidsons when they saw the chocolate section, with 12 different flavours of chocolate, which they launched into with gusto (and oddly enough with much more concentration and enthusiasm than the previous hour of school work!). Mum and dad had 21 coffees to choo
se from including full roasted, half roasted, imported, blends of all the above and flavoured coffees, which we sipped away on, shared with a bit of chocolate. After about 1/2 an hour we were all feeling a bit sick and needed to rest the the tummies so set off to see the amazing collection of over 2000 items of coffee paraphinalia in the museum next door. From there we watched a batch of beans being 
roasted and by this stage the kids sugar high had kicked in, Dad (who never drinks coffee) was feeling rather strung out and mum had purchased a few gifts so we headed to our camping ground for lunch. We were lucky enough to get into a heavily booked holiday park in Atherton and the kids were soon in the pool. At 4 pm we drove a short way up the road to the Bat Hospital, a rehabilitation centre for injured mega and microbats. Most of the bats we saw were fruit bats (flying foxes) as well as a few tiny insect eating microbats. We watched some wee orphan bats (mums died from paralysis tick) getting bottlefed and learnt a lot about these interesting creatures. By now it was getting dark so it was back to our campsite for dinner and a quick game of cards before spending our last night with Pearl : (
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