We woke up early but to be honest not as early as I expected considering we are in the middle of nowhere with quite thin blinds and once again the sun is shining down on us. We had breakfast on the deck then decided to do one of the walks on the property so we opted for the 3.5km Creek Walk which took us down to the river where we might see some Platypus. The walk was lovely and we did see some Parrots on the way but unfortunately despite going to three different points where we might see Platypus we didn’t see any at all. I am glad we went this morning as it wasn’t too hot although the up hill climb on the way back did get everything going a bit! We got back to the room about 10:30 and packed up lunch then set off for the first of today’s activities looking at waterfalls. The first one was Millaa Millaa Falls where you can go for a swim if you like, we didn’t but we did walk down to the waters edge. This is a 30 metre waterfall but it didn’t have much water flowing over it as they have had a very dry spell recently. The next waterfall on the circuit was Zillie Falls which looked quite spectacular but unfortunately you couldn’t see it very well as the walkway went along the top of it rather than either along the side or at the bottom, our final stop was Ellinaa Falls which had quite a walk down to it but I think was probably my favourite. We approached it from alongside a little river so all of a sudden it was in front of you. I think it was probably a little smaller than Millaa Millaa falls but I think it was probably more spectacular. After this we went to Herberton Historic Village where we had our picnic lunch then went and explored. This is a collection of homes and businesses from the turn of the century. This wealth of this area came from mining so there were a number of shops and exhibits showing either the machinery that was required to keep things going or the variety of goods that shops needed to stock so they could meet the demand. They had a magnificent stately home built in the 1880s, this is one of the few exhibits that actually had a complete set of furniture rather than a fantastic collection of items from the era. The main things we liked as always were the butchers which had all the original equipment required to cut up meat and they also had a sausage making machine, the Chemist which looked like it had been transported in time and deposited on the site and the printers which had a massive collection of machines in it. We stopped for an ice cream then went to the other side of the river and looked at a massive collection of tractors and vehicles used between the 1920’s and 30’s for some reason – we think preservation – they seem to have painted everything in varnish! We walked round a number of other buildings then finally to the school which was good because it had exam questions from each year on various blackboards around the room, some of which we were quite good at, others not so much! By this time we were very hot and they were about to close so we got back in the car for the 40 minute drive back to the hotel where a cold beer and a barbecue wait for us! Unfortunately for the second night running we sat on the deck and watched the clouds roll in just as it started getting dark so despite being in a perfect dark sky spot we didn’t see any stars.
