Position 17 16.92S  145 28.15E

Drove 300 km back to Atherton on the Atherton tablelands.  Pass bottle trees at 40 Mile Scrub.

Into the lush atherton tablelands

Atherton high street.

View from the towns lookout

We also visited the curtain fig tree.  Huge, the pictures don’t do it justice.  Fascinating trees, seeds germinate in a notch or crown of a tree, and send roots down the tree to the floor.  Aerial roots twist around the trees and eventually strangle the host tree.  The host tree then falls into a neighbouring tree (hence curtain fig tree).  Vertical roots drop down to the ground forming the curtain effect.  Eventually the host rots away leaving the free standing fig tree.

You can get some idea of the size of the tree here.  If not for the basalt boulders lying on the ground in this area all the woodland would have been turned into farming land.

Yungabarra – small pretty town.  Everywhere you go there are bowls, servicemen, surfing clubs.  Usually great food and lots of people.

Think the crop might be peanuts.  Rolling volcanic mounds in the background.