Yesterday we arrived at the Ravenshoe visitors centre, which gave us lots of information on things to do, they had a great film showing of platypus that had made their burrows in a dam before a drought and when the water receeded they had to climb back up rock walls to get to them, the northern platypus is only half the size of the southern platypus. One great thing we were told was a free camp approx 15km out of town in an old gravel pit, they said if we were lucky and used a spotlight we may see a tree kangeroo or cassowary, we didn't have any luck but the sounds of all the birds in the trees made up for it, it was like you were I some amazing jungle, noises I had never heard, if I didn't know any better I would swear some of them was monkeys calling, but it was just our animals and birds.
The down side was it was the coldest we had been since I don't know when, we both had thermals and beanies outside when we were spotlighting, we ended up going to bed in thermals, socks and I had my onesie overtop.
It was such a peaceful night and so nice to wake up to the beautiful dawn chorus.
The reason for the cold we were at 3731 ft with a lot of tall trees about not letting too much sun in. Ravenshoe is the highest town in Queensland.
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