Paluma Dam campground

After a breakfast of bircher muesli, fresh fruit and really good croissants at our Airlie Beach resort we headed north not knowing where we would get to today. We called in to Bowen, a picturesque coastal town. We shared a table with a Kiwi traveler for our morning coffee and he recommended the campsite at Paluma Dam, so that is where we ended up, pitching the tent for the first time this trip. Very narrow steep winding road through the rainforest up to Paluma, then about 12km of unsealed track out to the campsite in the rainforest next to the dam. Good clean eco toilets, no showers. Great chatting to our only neighbors Wolf and Nat around their fire. Nat is an environmental economist.

The next morning we went for a 5km walk in the rainforest from the campsite and also walked in to the Birthday Creek Falls on the way out.Read more