Coffee World Photo: @stephanieparsley The Atherton Tablelands are Australia’s famous coffee growing grounds. Coffee World has coffee tasting and sales complemented by an engaging museum giving you background on the crop and its place on the planet. There are displays here depicting the start of the coffee trade in Ethiopia in AD800 and examples of the first plunger, filter and …
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5 Atherton Tablelands Wonders That Will Take Your Breath Away
Chillagoe Caves The Chillagoe-Mungana Caves National Park is about three hours and 215kms from Cairns and an amazing destination – spectacular limestone caves, small galleries of Indigenous rock art, jagged rock outcrops and fascinating mining relics. It’s a complete contrast to the lush Wet Tropics with limestone moulded, dissolved and reformed by water to create spectacular caverns and passages. The …
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6 Top Spots: Lookouts To Look For
Millaa Millaa Lookout Photo: @andrewwatsonphoto The peaceful and simply stunning Milla Milla Lookout will take your eyes from the Atherton Tablelands to the coast on a really clear day. At 1070m its one of the best places to take in the beauty of the Tablelands with a 180 degree sweep from northwest to southeast. On McHugh Road, just a short …
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June Impressions of the Atherton Tablelands
Whether you like waterfalls, hot air balloons or wild life, the Atherton Tablelands have a little bit of everything. Here are our latest fan pic favourites – thank you everyone for the #hashtagging! Tag @athertontablelands or #athertontablelands to allow us to repost your images as well. Photo credits: @epictimes_social @zostud @simonswildlife @mycolourfulworld_ @heidzb @katiikerr
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World War 2 Trail
With a cooler climate than Cairns, the area still provided excellent jungle warfare training for those heading off to places like (Papua) New Guinea and Bougainville. Servicemen were also treated for malaria at camp hospitals. The Atherton Tablelands was the largest Australian military base with camps at Tinaroo, Kairi, Wongabel, Herberton, Wondecia, Ravenshoe, and Mt Garnet as well as Atherton/Tolga …
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Free diving Lake Eacham
Lake Eacham has long been a popular spot for sporting enthusiasts from all different walks, but there is a new trend taking to its crystal clear shores – and this one involves holding your breath. Tanya Snelling finds out more: Five minutes with … Lisa Mattes from Apnea Cairns What does apnea mean? Apnea is ancient Greek (apnoea) and …
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The Great Wheelbarrow Race
On the third weekend in May, Mareeba Shire Council is the host to the ‘Great Wheelbarrow Race’. This is an event where competitors push an empty wheelbarrow along the ‘Wheelbarrow Way’ between Mareeba and Chillagoe in three stages. The 2018 event smashed the $2M mark raising funds for charity since the race began. Here are the highlights from the 3 day …
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Kids can be mini miners at the Crystal Caves
The Caves, already offering families a fascinating expedition into the underworld of minerology and semi-precious gems, now has an activity centre especially for children including free wifi, gemstone fossicking and jewellery making. The kids area was created to add something extra special to a visit to The Crystal Caves for children during school holidays. The new area has a craft …
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Chillagoe – a true blue Down Under Experience
On the outside slate grey bluffs known as karst push out of the red earth, like an outback Mordor. Inside, about 50 metres below the ground, a network of large chambers and passages are loaded with stalactites and stalagmites and other mesmerising limestone formations. The caves are in Chillagoe-Mungana National Park, on the doorstep of the township of Chillagoe. Two …
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Tinaroo Dam
Tinaroo, Tinaroo Falls, Tinaroo Falls Dam and Lake Tinaroo are all names applied to the small settlement which has sprung up on the shores of the huge artificial lake centrally located on the Atherton Tablelands. The town takes its name from a creek where John Atherton found tin and gold in 1878. Atherton is credited with naming the creek Tinaroo. …
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