![]() The water level was very low due to an unusually dry ‘wet season’, and no rain in months, during the ‘dry season’. Topside it’s another very beautiful pool of water with trees and remanent rainforest fringing the banks. The site itself sits aside a ford (water crossing) and is the local swimming hole, but today we had the place to ourselves. Meeting at the agreed time the next day, Luana spent a good hour or so talking and educating us about her passion, the Platypus, before describing the dive site and the other animals we’re (more) likely to see, before we geared up and drove out to the site. Anyway, it was way too good an opportunity to miss, so I booked in for a 1 on 1 guided dive with her. In fact, last year she hosted the BBC to get some underwater footage of the Platypus for a new series they’re doing. Stopping in for a chat on the way through, Luana, the dive master, advises that she’s the only freshwater, rainforest scuba diving guide, where you have a chance of seeing wild Platypus underwater. Anyway, whilst Wiki’ing she came across “Rainforest Scuba”, located in the town of Finch Hatton, about 30kms out from our campsite on the Broken River. In addition to the Platypuses, there’s lots of turtles, some snakes (also swimming around), birds, possums and a lovely rainforest walk circuit to do.Īnd, to top all that off… As we were driving towards Eungella, Jules was doing her “what is coming up in WikiCamps” search, where she follows our route and lets us know what’s cool in the area and what’s coming up. ![]() So rather than that we followed AJ’s advice and spent our day in Townsville Barbie’ing it up on Magnetic Island and have just followed that up by spending a couple of lovely days camped aside the Broken River in the Eungella National Park, watching wild Platypus swim up and down in front of us. Prior to the tips from AJ, we were just planning to spend a day at each city, checking out the local scene, basically chucking bog laps down the main strip. ![]() Anyway, following a good chat over some wine they put us onto both Magnetic Island and the Eungella National Park. Whilst staying at Pinnarendi Station a couple of weeks ago we met a lovely couple, AJ and Theresa at dinner, and I’d mentioned how we were planning to trek south, homeward bound, via Townsville and Mackay. Oh, and by the way, the answer is Platypuses, not Platypi.īut all good stories start with a beginning so let’s jump to ours. That’s the question for this blog, as from where I’m sitting at the van, I can often see more than one of the little and very cute buggers swimming around….
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