Paluma Range National Park

Paluma Ranges National Park

Paluma Range National Park is an awesome spot, great swimming, very scenic and some great history to it. We all had loads of fun staying in this area. We camped Big Crystal Creek which had a huge swimming hole, great for swimming and snorkelling. The rocks by the water was our classroom for the morning while the girls wrote in their journals. An afternoon at the natural rock slides, just a short drive from camp proved to be so much fun for us all. Such a unique natual attraction to find.

The girls really enjoyed discovering the tadpoles, Kate found this baby frog and thought it was very cute. We found out that the beautiful, large green frogs that we have been finding are dark brown when they are young and as they grow older they turn into the nice green colour.  The girls were finding lots of the brown baby frogs in the power outlets at the caravan park in Airlie and took one up to the office to ask what type of frog it was and they found out they were baby green frogs. We did see lots of the green frogs in the park as well.




Little Crystal Creek

 Little Crystal Creek was another section with lots of little waterfalls and great swimming holes. This beautiful rock bridge over crystal creek was on the way up the Paluma Ranges, we stopped for a swim and Emma got talking to some girls who are holidaying from Papa New Guinea. The family were very friendly and they are here for a month visiting their family in Townsville. It has been wonderful meeting so many families and couples travelling from all over the world, so we now need to buy a world map to mark the places people come from.