Down into another tunnel

Paul gives some idea of the height and breadth.

Layer of lava peeling off the wall.

On the roof you can see where the lava flow has turned a corner, as it were.

You can just make out the light at one end of the tunnel here.

Cane toads, which are poisonous, have spread throughout Queensland and into the Northern Territories.  A non-endemic species brought in originally with sugar cane imports.  They lay tens of thousands of eggs in one session and nothing in Australia has predated them.  Have heard that some animals seems to be learning to avoid.  Anyway, they get into these tubes but then cannot get back up the rubble so die here.  Solution, fill Australia with holes, oh no that’s called mining.

In the dark the ‘snow’ wasn’t visible, shame as I suffered terrible hay fever later on.

Probably fungi .

Light at the other end of the tunnel.

And out the other end.

Volcanic boulders lie everywhere. 

The extra time of the tour included scone, jam, cream and a cup of coffee at a pioneering hut.

I had to visit the

But the view was great