LAKE BARRINE - YUNGABURRA - MT HYPIPAMEE (THE CRATER)
Dawn and I took a day out together and headed up to the Tablelands, we decided to take the 5km walk around the perimeter of Lake Berrine. It was a warm day but cloudy with little wind. The walk took us through some pristine wet-tropical forest that support the 'Bull Kauri' pine which can grow over 45 meters in height and have a 6 meter girth, it is the only pine with broadleaves!
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| the Bull Kauri pine tree |
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| they asked me to push one back into place |
The walk had many interesting trees to look at but very little wildlife was on show, we saw a few birds including the secretive Chowchilla, also Eastern Whipbird, Spotted Catbird, Victoria Riflebird and many common honeyeaters.
After a nice cup of tea in the 'tea-house' we drove to Yungaburra where we learned of a good place to see Platypus, we drove to Patterson's Creek and within two minutes of arriving we were watching a Platypus. Absolutely fantastic, this was an animal I've always wanted to see, can't believe this nocturnal animal (crepuscular at least) was swimming around, ducking and diving, during daylight hours.
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| Duck-billed Platypus taken by Dawn |
From there we drove to see the spectacle of the 'Crater' at Mt Hypipamee, it was a bit under whelming but the drive there and back was nice.
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| juvenile Black-shouldered Kite |
Our drive back to Cairns was interrupted by a quick stop to join some roadside birders who were watching a family of Black-shouldered Kites, this brought my day tally of new birds to 3! The other two were Torresian Crow and Blue-winged Kookaburra.
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