The Undara National Park is a beautiful place to camp. We booked for the easy lava tube tour (i.e. stairs and boardwalks, NOT up and down ladders in the dark). It proved to be a very informative 2 hours with guide Ross Rogers who grew up in the district. A wonderful tale of how and why (in theory) it all happened. Several million years ago there were volcanic explosions, lava coated hundreds of kms of the earth’s surface and then started to cool and form a crust. Under the crust some still molten lava flowed on forming rivulets which flowed out of the hardened crust leaving hollow lava tubes. Over the years some of the ceilings of the tubes have collapsed and we can now go inside the tubes and explore. It is a well organized resort with plenty of marked walks, information sessions and camp fire star gazing and sing songs in the evening and good facilities.
After 2 days at Undara we took the back road which is dirt all the way to Hughenden and the car and trailer, after several creek crossings, has a coat of mud and red dust so we blend it a bit more with the locals. In Hughenden we had a look at the restored dinosaur the bones of which were found locally and we then headed on to Cloncurry.
It is rodeo and air show weekend in this neck of the woods so this morning we went out to the air show, lots of small planes and men in big hats. This is Burke & Wills territory, they rode through here on their ill fated expedition, wonder if they had problems with green frogs!
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