Day 69 – Sunday 26 September 2021 –  117 Km

Packing this morning & on the road around 10am past many cane farms. Once we got into the hills the countryside is very poor looking with scraggy trees & cattle grazing. A few old volcanic plugs dotting the landscape here & there. The highway is fairly busy, still lots of caravans on the road.  I miss the turn-off into Cape Hillsborough, the only signage is for Seaforth, so a few kilometres down the road I find a place to pull over & turn on the GPS guidance. Yes, that was the turn. We drive past more cane fields before the countryside becomes hilly & poor soil again, then onto a dirt road that is in good condition. We continue to Seaforth, then back to bitumen & then the turn-off to Cape Hillsborough, where, surprisingly (not) it is hilly. The end of the road is the caravan park, a small island in the middle of the Cape Hillsborough National Park. It is around midday & we set up then go for a walk on the beach, this place is an absolutely beautiful paradise surrounded by very large trees growing to the high tide mark.

After lunch we played Yahtzee then rested for a while then another walk down to the beach. One man I spoke to is from Cairns here with his family. Everyone else goes to Cairns for their holidays. The people from Cairns come to Cape Hillsborough. This is a really nice place, a good choice.