Paluma Range National Park is a lovely, bushy, quiet, and warm pocket of country that lies north of Townsville, amongst tropical rainforest, waterfalls and waterholes; and is perfect for a short getaway if you love the great outdoors.
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| Jase cooks over the coal bbq Lee & Maria gave us for Christmas |
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| Nothing but the best. Jase cooks us prawn vol au vents for lunch. |
A blast from the past; Jason and Keryn, and kids Max and Jason Jnr came along to join us for the weekend in their new camper trailer and we spent our time swimming in the Paradise Waterhole, eating copious amounts of beef (breakfast, lunch and tea, thank you very much), sitting around a campfire with a beer or three, and watching Max and his dad play cricket amongst tall spindly gum trees.
The waterhole was a highlight - dark green (but clear) water, as fresh as any you can imagine, trickles gently across rocks which lie upstream, into deep pools which are home to little fish, turtles and eels.
Flanking the water is a series of tall smooth rocks which children (and big children) delight in leaping off into the water in "bombs" or as part of silly games, such as the frisbee game (your friend throws a frisbee across the water, you leap off the rocks and try to catch it before hitting the water), and the underwater swimming game (leap off the rocks foot-first, then push off the bottom and swim as far froward as you can before coming to the surface). There was a group of indigenous kids who were experts at the underwater game, and gave Max and Jase a run for their money!
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