The Parade on a Prado (Brisbane Day 2)

Overnight, I really could not sleep and what the reason was, baffled me completely. I had no clue whatsoever. This made me wake up completely tired and very dull. Breakfast served, it was time to get out of the house and travel around.

Our mode of travel today was a beast. Unusually one that I've never really had a chance to get a ride on for all these year. It was waiting for this particular moment to show itself to me, I guess.

Prado all the way

I was going to enjoy this trip. I did not care what was to come in my way. I was determined to enjoy. The heat was picking up and touching 33 degrees Celsius. Yes, the dry air was not very pleasing either, still, with the car on the move and the a/c on full, who would know the difference between 33 and 20. Really. It made no difference whatsoever. This monster pulled away and simply rolled off into the country. This was tropical whether. Dry and Hot. I expected a little more umph! from the climate and I did not have to wait too long. It started to rain.

Bush walking was what was planned for the day today. I wished it would not rain but this was the first set of rains in the area. I was not going to complain about it. My rainforest treks would come to good use. After all, this was just water. Nothing more right? And on the forest floor, what else would be better; the canopy protects the ground below anyway. This was great.

Our first destination was Binna Burra.



Here, we planned to go for the caves circuit walk but was sadly unable because of the rain. We did stop at the lodge that was there and decided to have a lovely lunch.

 I thought i'd share some of the pictures that I took of the lodge itself. From the entrance, this is what one sees.

Beautiful trees that surround the lodge bring out the beauty of the landscape with the contrasting views.

This beautiful restaurant gave us a sense of hanging over the edge of the mountain. In a sense; I was astounded by the similarity that the place had with Nandi hills (minus the people of course). Even the way it was made was absolutely amazing. with the wooden buildings and old rustic feel.

The clouds rolled over the hills as one could see rain falling in the distance as well. We decided after lunch that it was time to make a move. One has only so much patience and we wanted to go and see other sites.

On our way, it was as though we ended up in a place just like in the Lord of the Rings. One has to see it to believe it. Was really awestruck to see the sight. I have to say that the picture looks better than the real thing because I could zoom in.



We worked our way down the hills again and ended up near a dam. Circumventing the dam, we arrived at a place called the natural bridge. This was truly exciting. here was a bridge that was formed which was natural in every way you could think of. There was even a hole in the roof of the cave that I had seen. The place supposedly even had glow worms. Yeah... Glow worms. Did not see a single one though. :(

This was really good jungle. Set deep in Queensland country. But I was told, this is really not the only way in which Queensland appears. There are various avatars too.

After all the journey, we ended up in a nice cute little township on top of a hill I cannot remember the name of and had a small cup of Roiboos tea. Yes, South African Bush tea in the middle of Australia. What an amalgamation of culture this really is.

By the end of the day, I was truly tired. I just wanted to see the bed. We came home calculated, how much we traveled the whole trip. Yes, we did 350 kilometres. Now that is a lot of distance to do in a day with all the sight seeing which was hindered completely with the rain.

Tomorrow is a new day, and i'm looking forward to a sunny and bright day. At least that is what the whether forecast says. We'll see what happens.