North Queensland: Atherton Tables II

After Cairns, we left the coast for a little while and went inside, around the Atherton Tables again, to walk around lakes, see nice falls,

not huge falls, but nice ones, as always in the middle of eucalyptus and ferns.

At the end of the day, awesome views along the banana plantations, a stop to buy some,

and then incredible sunset in the smoke of the burning sugar cane plants (a priori they burn them during winter to kill insects). Eventually we met with two cassowaries, first in the garden of a house then on a beach. They don’t look really friendly and seem to have very sharp claws so you don’t want to get too close, but it was great fun seeing them!