Granite Gorge

Granite Gorge is a place in the Atherton Tableland 15 km west of Mareeba. We found it more or less by coincidence and it was such a beautiful, amazing place that I have to tell you about it. There is no Wikipedia article on it so far.

There is a gorge, eine Schlucht, filled with huge massive granite boulders over which you can climb. There is a creek running though too, and the whole scenery is absolutely picturesque. Now I know where the word "gorgeous" (grossartig, traumhaft, wunderschoen) comes from!

There is a caravan park right next to the gorge at which we stayed one night. They sell wallaby food ($1 a bag) which you can feed to the dozens of little rock wallabies that live there. They are very used to people and will come near without any shyness, and eat from your hand! As you can see they are very cute and really an attraction for every visitor. You won't find such tame wallabies anywhere else in the wild. They are almost semi-domestic animals here.

This was Molly's last day with me, she went back to Brisbane on Thursday and will go back to Hong Kong next week. She had not seen the Great Barrier Reef on her short stay here, but she had really enjoyed the tablelands. She had even gone for a hot air balloon ride in Mareeba ($220, too expensive for me).

We visited the Mareeba Coffee Works for a cup of coffee and house-made chocolates, and then the Mount Uncle Distillery where we had a tasting of different liqueurs. Not a bad life, we're having!

And then we said goodbye to Werner and Karola at Yorkey's Knob and thanked them a thousand times for their great hospitality and friendship, and promised to visit again when we come back to here.