Millaa Millaa to Undara

In the morning we were up and away so that we could breakfast at the first of the Millaa Millaa waterfalls - Ellinjaa Falls. From there we moved on to admire the Zillie Falls from a lookout, peering down on the falls from above, and then on to the most beautiful, the Millaa Millaa falls, which are 12m and surronded by tree ferns and flowers.

Pearl then had about a 2.5 hour drive, first through Ravenshoe (pronounced Ravens-hoe, not Raven-Shoe!) which is Queensland's highest town (at only 930m). Apart from Windy Hill, which is Australia's largest wind farm (still with only 20 turbines), not much to see here so we hurtled on down the Savannah Way. The landscape thinned out to outback woodland savannah and multicolored termite mounds, the latter huge. We resisted the temptation to detour to see the setting for the Australian Survivor! Arriving at Undara Experience about 2.00, we were rapt with our van park right on the edge of the camp, looking out into the bush. After a laze around the pool, we walked up to the Bluff, a small granite knoll which gave great views over the wooded lava plains to many of the volcanoes. Sarah continued along the 100 Mile Swamp track, while Ben and the kids returned on the same track. Early evening we treated ourselves to a drink in the drinks carriage, one of the many old railway carriages that are the theme of the Undara Experience camp. We then had a lovely meal back at Pearl, on the fringe of the outback savannah!