Rick and Rae's Travels: Wed, 31st August

Ravenshoe is Queensland's highest town at 950 metres above sea level and is located in the Misty Mountains. It lived up to its name and the day started off misty and cool. We needed to have our 7-pin plug (connecting the car to the van) replaced, so we went to see an Auto Electrician in town. He couldn't help us out until 8am the next morning, so we returned to the Railway Museum and unhooked the van so we could do some sight-seeing. First stop was the Little Millstream Falls just outside of town. There are a lot of falls in the area and we ended up visiting 5 of them.

We decided to move on to Big Millstream Falls but somehow missed the turn and after about 15kms of twisty, narrow road ended up at the beautiful Tully Gorge. We backtracked and eventually found the turn to Big Millstream Falls which is reportedly the widest single-drop waterfall in Australia.

After having lunch back at the van we had a walk up the main street, looking into a couple of interesting little craft shops. We then took another narrow and twisty road to the Mungalli Creek Dairy, stopping briefly in a quaint little town called Millaa Millaa on the way. We came across a quirky statue in the main street ... click on the second photo below to enlarge the explanation. The Dairy wasn't far down the road and was all a bit of a disappointment, however we purchased some cheese and a tub of yoghurt. On the way back to Ravenshoe we drove a loop past the Zillie, Ellinjaa and Millaa Millaaa Falls. There was a small busload of young people swimming at the Millaa Millaa falls even though it was overcast and only about 20 degrees in the rainforest.

As we headed into the Zillie Falls we were met by what we think was some type of turkey that actually crossed the road and headed straight for us. We gave him a wide berth and he disappeared into the surrounding bush.