Atherton Tablelands

Day Thirty - Atherton Tablelands
Big4 Atherton Woodlands Tourist Park - $68 per night - Powered site - 1 night
Fuel - $63.51
Reserve Diesel 40 litres
613km 

 We get up today with no rush, no time frame, no plans which was the whole point of this trip. We haven't pre-booked any accommodation ahead of time. We mostly sit down at night when the kids go to bed and work out what tomorrow plans will be, where we want to pull up and what we want to check out along the way. 

 Today was an interesting one as I sat in the co-pilot seat (and feed the driver, very important job) I watched the surrounds change from dry desert to beautiful lush forests as we came into the Atherton Tablelands. The temp dropped from 32 to about 16 degrees.

Now, not booking ahead of time can be a pain in the bum, Cause sometimes I have to spend half an hour or so ringing around trying to find somewhere that will fit a 27-foot caravan. This seems like a small task!! BUT I've phoned four parks and no luck, on the firth try BOOM.... were in! 

We get about 30 minutes from the Big4 and we're getting low on fuel. We do have 40 litres on the back (which we are going to have to use) so in the middle of the mountains (with a massive freaking caravan on), we manage to find a small area to pull over on and put the Deisel in the ute... There was a cliff right behind the caravan... Lucky my Husbstar is a good driver!

 The Atherton area is a beautiful place and would love to explore a lot more but we have a time frame for the next two weeks to get down to Cabarita, so we are putting this on our bucket list for the future. 


Accommodation = $68.00
Fuel = $117.17
Travelled = 613km 


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Location: Australia

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