28th August 2014 Lake Tinaroo Yungaburra

Today is June's 60th birthday, I can't be with her in body but I certainly am in spirit.
We took our canoes up to Lake Eacham, the lake is only a small one approx 3km round, it is a volcanic crater.
When we paddled around there wasn't much bird life as the water is too deep for any apart from shags.
When we finished paddling we left the canoes on the bank and went for a walk on the trail around the lake, we never get sick of walking in the thick rainforest, with the sounds of the birds, smell of the bush and amazing plants. There was a young tour group there, mostly from overseas, swimming,  it was way too cold for us, would probably be great on a hot day.
Next was Lake Barrine, this lake was slightly larger, even though it was in a national park it was all about commercialism, there was a cafe and gift shop so there wasn't any nice bbq areas like at the previous lake, also they run boat cruises on the lake so nobody else was allowed a boat or canoe in the lake.
We looked at the cafe, $8.70 for coffee and scones, not likely.
Then it was a tikki tour up around the top of Lake Tinaroo, it is a national park but there is also pine plantations being logged, these have been planted, I think they were karrie pines.
The road was a dirt one with potholes so big you could almost drive in one side and out the other, no doubt this is caused mostly by the log trucks.
There are some great camping areas in the park,  we would have loved to stay in one but the road was just too bad too take the camper and boat.
We found another crater lake that had a great walk trail so we did that.
By the time we got back out of the bush area it was around 3pm, we hadn't had lunch so we just had to stop and get an icecream and chocolate bar.
Stopped at Atherton for a few goodies then back to camp for quiche dinner.