Out of Milla Milla the worst way. With a 2km climb up a hill.

Then 20 km of rolling hills and a dangerously narrow main road to Malanda.

Malanda was having its annual agricultural show so took the opportunity to wander around the show and have fatty show food for lunch.

Coming from a beef cattle family it was interesting to see dairy farmers showing off their stock. Instead of how well a beef animal would fit into a meat carton (seriously, cattle are bred to fit efficiently into certain size cartons) the dairy farmers go on about udder size. Each to their own.

Then there was the fun; a guy who had cut the end two cylinders off a Spitfire Merlin V12 engine and put it in a motorbike. 150km/hr in first gear.

I headed out of town to the Crater Lakes National Park.

On the way I saw a tree kangaroo dead on the road. Apparently tree kangaroos are not uncommon in the area but are threatened by road kills and deforestation.

Settled in at the caravan park by mid-afternoon.

A walk up to the Crater Lake and around it took a couple of hours. The lake is the crater left after a steam explosion. Apparently water seeped into the ground and hit hot rocks causing superheated steam which eventually blew out the rock above. It must have been fairly recent as the aboriginal legend for the area tells of a camp of young men being destroyed in the explosion because they didn’t do what their elders told them to.