Cape Hillsborough National Park, Possums,Kangaroos, Kookaburras and Red Elephants

Cape Hillsborough National Park was just a short hour and half hop from Sarina and was just north of Mackay.  The drive in was very scenic we had the good old Sugar Cane fields next to cattle that look like Brahman.  The paddocks are deliciously green with a backdrop of majestic mountains with rocky escarpments.  Cape Hillsborough itself is a place where the rainforest does indeed come down and meet  the beach.

 We had lovely golden furred little kangaroos hopping around our site and at night ring tailed possums.  Kookaburras would be looking down at us and some of them seemed to have a good old laugh at the Red Elephants.  Could it be that the junior Red Elephants collected coconuts and drew faces on them making a family.  Some of these coconuts made their way into their bed at night.

We went on a walk up and over the headland through rainforest.  It was a very gusty day but we where  protected in the rainforest.  The walk went up and up and up climbing rock stairs, once again my ticker had a good work out.  Once at the top we had a lovely view of Wedge Island, we walked a little further to Turtle Lookout and looked and looked and yes we did see a turtle.  Back down we came and clambered over rocks to Wedge Island where we found the most amazing rock pool.

The park put on outdoor movies on the big screen so for 2 nights in a row we watched outdoor movies in our camp chairs with James and Grace wrapped up in their qwuillows.  The first night we had fish and chips cooked onsite.

Cape HIllsborough is a place you could enjoy for a week or 2, there the pool , beach and about 4 different bush walks.

 Thank you to Cape Hillsborough and the new friends we made, we enjoyed our stay.