DAY 40 – BACK TO THE COAST

After two weeks in a dusty cow paddock putting dirt in bags was enough for the intrepid pair and once the last drill hole was nearing completion, all that was visible was dust left by a Pajero pointing east.

Dordie had her first taste of the pointy end of mineral exploration in the Australian Outback and while it was an education in how you find new ore bodies to potentially mine, she is happy to leave it to the geologists from now on.

Friday night was spent in the little hamlet of Mt Garnet which is just to the west of the Atherton Tablelands. The highlight of the evening was having a normal bed and clean shower water that wasn’t hauled up from a dam muddied by cattle. The steaks they do at the Mt Garnet Pub are exceptional and it is worth visiting Mt Garnet for the steaks alone.

After a good nights sleep, we headed back to the Atherton Tablelands to continue our tour of Australia. We visited another Mango farm that sold mango wine for tourists, we added another bottle of fruit wine to our collection.

We ended up in Kuranda again and decided to stay the night. It was quite amusing to see Kuranda is a day time only tourist town, and it was literally dead on a Saturday night.