Ravenshoe

I apologise for the gap in posting to our travel blog but we have been in the 'electronic wilderness' of northern queensland. We have not had mobile or internet connection for 3 days. For me that is a complete catastrophe. More about all that in the next posting.


Ravenshoe, situated in the 'tablelands' area, is the queensland town with the highest elevation, almost 3000 feet or a smidgeon under 1000 metres. Even though not far from the coast of tropical queensland the climate here is quite different. There is little humidity during the day, the nights are cool and mornings produce a heavy dew. Really, a very mild climate.

This finger board sign points to various towns in Australia and their position on the post above ground level indicates the rainfall for each town in metres. The second from the top is Tully and the town of Topaz takes top position.

Festival Hall, Ravenshoe style.

A chainsaw sculpture to the pioneers of the area.

Bright Jacaranda trees in a quiet side street of Ravenshoe.

The "top" pub in Ravenshoe. Ravenshoe is the highest town in queensland, therefore this pub must be the highest pub in queensland.

The other pub is The Club.

The home of delicious curry pies.

This steam engine is still in working order as a rule, but not this week. I think the whistle is out of order, you can't operate a steam engine without a whistle.

I've got the controls worked out?

A lady waiting for the next train.

The carriage end of the train, there is also a second class, that is a cattle truck with seats.

Ravenshoe is also the wind capital of queensland. There are 20 wind generators here at a $1,000,000 each. Notice the clever camouflage on the masts!

This is known as 'windy hill' and that's where the placed the 20 generators. I could not get a shot with all 20 in the frame.

The Millstream Falls, the widest single drop waterfalls in Australia. I'd like to see the flow over here in the wet season.

A close-up of The Millstream Falls. Quite beautiful and great to listen too.

Adjacent to The Millstream Falls is this Memorial to The Servicemen of WW11. There is a walkway around what used to be a training base.

This pathway and the rocks lining each side is the original from when it was laid in 1944.

This was the fireplace from the Officers Mess.

This is the remains of that fireplace. It was intact right up until Cyclone Larry in 2006. That fallen tree on the extreme left of this photo was the culprit in the demolition.

One of the original training 'foxholes' at the camp.

Some of the original 'corduroy' pathway installed in 1944 to combat the muddy conditions during the 'wet season'.