Atherton, Australia Travel Journals & Blogs

Reisen mit Moni und Marco Australien-Cook-NZ-Fidji
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- Nov 6, 2015, 12:49pm
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 775 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.26722, 145.4780417°16’2” S 145°28’41” E
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Atherton
November 6, 2015 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Größter Amethyst der Welt
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Traveler MarkTula Exploring Oz
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- Jun 11, 2021
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 754 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.265, 145.4766717°15’54” S 145°28’36” E
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Atherton Tablelands
June 11, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Spent 4 nights at Atherton visiting the surrounding area. After leaving Wonga Beach we drove through My Molloy and visited one of the oldest pubs in QLD. Visited Mareeba markets I love going to the markets to see the hand made items. We then went on to have breakfast at the Hungry Pug Cafe. Paid a visit to the Coffee Works and bought chocolate. We had a full day we then went onto visit the Mt Uncle distillery. Love to try new things. Checked out shops love little towns.
The next day we went to Herberton Historical Village. (See another blog) spent our last day looking around Atherton had lunch at Barron Valley Hotel the architecture was amazing. Visited Lake Tinaroo and walked the dam wall.Read more
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Traveler C&S Trip of a Life Time
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- Jul 19, 2023, 12:00pm
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 769 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.258921, 145.48296117°15’32” S 145°28’59” E
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Atherton Tablelands
July 19, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Into the Atherton Tablelands, cattle country, where the rainforest meets the mountains, waterfalls and quaint little towns.
Traveler Wow! 🤩
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Traveler How many waterfalls were there Sue? Good rainfall up there?
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Traveler We saw 3 in total but heaps more we can't get to in the camper
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Traveler The Big Lap...Almost
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- Oct 17, 2022
- ⛅ 28 °C
- Altitude: 779 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.235, 145.4817°14’6” S 145°28’48” E
Day 264
Leaving Cairns back to Mareeba
October 17, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Sad to leave our little patch in Cairns it has been such an amazing park....we were worried about it being to loud and busy but it was lovely. We are going to use Mareeba as a base to explore Atherton and surrounds...so back to no air conditioning 😆Read more
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Alan Thompson Randy & Lizzie’s 1st voyage
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- Oct 3, 2022
- ☁️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 761 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.265441, 145.47886917°15’56” S 145°28’44” E
Day 63
Atherton,The Band Broke Up 🥲
October 3, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We split up today as we’re off to Cairns / Port Douglas to get rear window fixed. Gary and Cathy headed to mission beach and then south. We may catch them up. 😎🥴 Note my new happy hour partner. Note a fellow traveler. 4 Bricks and 2 fridges. Serious stuff.Read more
Traveler Love your new drinking partner. What's the conversation like?
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Alan Thompson Woof
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Traveler Kenny’s Aussie Adventures 2022
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- Sep 29, 2022, 11:00am
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 759 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.265818, 145.47578417°15’57” S 145°28’33” E
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Road Trip - Atherton
September 29, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Day 3 - Cooktown to Atherton

We finally made it to Atherton to visit the Crystal Cave. I have been wanting to come here and see all the amazing gems for a very long time. We did not crack a geod, as we watched some other people crack one and we all agreed that we had found better ones ourselves fossicking at Agate Creek, so we spent the money buying our birthstones and a few other stones just because we liked them 😆.

Lunch and a swim at Lake Eachem.

Platypus viewing on the way to our campsite was not to successful, we spotted one, but saw plenty of turtles.Read more
Traveler Brett's face 🤣🤣 looks impressed
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Traveler 🤣🤣🤣love it
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Traveler didn't see the boy's faces at first 🤣🤣🤣 cute 🥰🥰
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Traveler 😂😂 Lachlan was dying to get this photo, he stood there for ages waiting
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Traveler it's cute 😍 ☺️
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Traveler Eyre Peninsula to the Kimberly
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- Jun 10, 2021, 4:58pm
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 769 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.26767, 145.4691517°16’4” S 145°28’9” E
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Atherton
June 10, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Our base camp to explore the Tablelands. Yungaburra, Mareeba, Malanda, Kuranda.

Kel got some golf in at Atherton.

We checked out some falls, lakes and other natural wonders.

And of course Markets which were full of artists and self made items.Read more
M and M Are you going into Mareeba
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Novices on the road
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- Jul 21, 2022
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 820 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.269417, 145.48889917°16’10” S 145°29’20” E
Day 67
Atherton and surrounds
July 21, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
We arrived in Atherton on Monday 18/7/22. On the way we were stuck in a bit of a road train sandwich and very slow going until we found a safe part of the road to overtake. We stayed here for 4 nights whilst Jamie did some work. A very quiet week for me with chores and a little sightseeing. Atherton is really pretty nestled in at the foot of some mountains. The view from the caravan park is of the mountains in the background. I explored the neighbouring towns of Malanda and Yungaburra. Mandala had a small falls and Yungaburra had a lovely stream and a pretty Main Street with many restored buildings in use. Whilst walking along the creek in Yungaburra I managed to see 4 more platypuses ( or whatever the plural of platypus is🤣) and some turtles. There is a very large very old curtain fig tree which was well worth the visit. A very peaceful walk. I also visited Gallo dairy for some cheese and chocolate.Read more
Traveler Yummy looking fudge. Love the root system of 2 of those trees,.
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Traveler The Gouws’ half lap of Aus.
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- Apr 26, 2022, 10:00am
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 755 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.2655, 145.475817°15’56” S 145°28’33” E
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Crystal Caves in Atherton
April 26, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
What a gem Crystal Caves was. The guy who owned this museum, René, was so passionate about his gems and crystals, that he built his own cave to showcase them all. It was really well done. The photo's don't do it justice (because it was so dark inside it didn't look as fake as the photos show.) The best thing was the kids were allowed to touch everything! We got to crack open a 44 million year old geode, that came from the Las Choyas mine in Mexico. It was basically a lucky dip with the lady at the store telling us that the lighter the rock, the better it should be. We got a beautiful smoky quartz crystal. The kids each brought their own crystals and some small rocks as well.Read more
Traveler This must have been so much fun for Noah and Esmé.
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Traveler They loved it! The guy who owned this museum was so passionate about his gems and crystals he built his own cave to showcase them all. It was really well done. The photo's don't do it justice! The best thing was they were allowed to touch everything!
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Traveler Wow, wow, wow, this looks amazing!! 🤩 Lovely photos. 😍
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Dani and Dave on the hoof North Queensland 2008
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- Nov 6, 2008
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 776 m
- Australia Queensland Tablelands Atherton -17.26608, 145.4858617°15’58” S 145°29’9” E
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Atherton
November 6, 2008 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Driving North, we stopped overnight in Atherton, the heart of the Atherton Tablelands.

The country up here is really something special, just beautiful.
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