Out and About – Nth Queensland Tablelands – WanderingEagles

Portrait of a Bush Stone-Curlew — Curly’s (Bush Stone-curlew) can always be seen and heard in Yungaburra

Hello again from Yungaburra, things have been going well despite the weather not being the best. It’s been really really windy and showery but when the sun pops out occasionally it’s just fantastic, especially when Anthony’s camera is focused on a dragonfly or Butterfly.

We did have one clear morning where Anthony raced down to the waterfront of Lake Tinaroo ( almost on our doorstep ) to get some beautiful photos of the lake, nice and calm and some morning mist. This really is a beautiful place to hang out as you can see.

Lake Tinaroo

We have had a few outings too, yesterday we drove past Mareeba to the Wetlands which to our dismay are now permanently closed.

We then backtracked to Granite Gorge Nature Park which is always nice rock hopping and looking for dragonflies. We saw an echidna here too but couldn’t get a good photo as he saw us too and tried to squish himself under a rock, so we gave him some space and let him be.

Granite Gorge

These Squatter Pigeon’s are almost tame at Granite Gorge

Yes we have Dragonflies

I’ve been deprived of seeing my favorite Insects for some time now.

These critters put a huge grin on my face 🙂

Elusive Archtail Dragonfly

Orange Threadtail Damselfly

Red-tipped Shadeflies

Female Tropical Rockmaster Damselfly

(faded) Tropical Rockmaster Damselfly

Female Scarlet Percher

and Butterflies

0T2A5249 — Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly

Crater Lakes Barrine and Eacham

Lake Barinne Tea House — Lake Barrine and Teahouse

We also visited the two amazing volcanic lakes just up the road from Yungaburra, You can walk around both but we had Devonshire teas ( award winning) at Lake Barrine. Then onto Lake Eacham, which we did walk around.

These are great places to see the Victoria’s rifle bird, we heard them a few times but no luck for photos. Another elusive bird we are chasing is the Pied Monarch, such a gorgeous little bird that we have spotted a few times but never get a photo. We passed another photographer at Lake Eacham who proudly showed us a great photo he just got of the Monarch…..just around the next bend……🤨🤨 but no such luck for us.