Going with the Flow
May 9th, 2008 by Marcus“When this thing erupted, it went off its face - it sent out 23 cubic kilometres of lava”, said Levi, rolling out the cheese and bikkies atop a rocky bluff in the Undara Volcanic National Park.
“It was Mother Nature’s power chuck.”
Levi, whose name is an anagram of evil, has a wicked sense of humour. He also has a way with people, which might be why he collected a Cairns Tourism Assocation award recently.
The many kilometres of dramatic lava tubes for which the volcanic park is famous were formed in an eruption about 190,000 years ago. They were created when the top layer of flowing lava cooled and crusted, leaving the lava flow inside to drain away and leave kilometres of massive, hollow tubes.
The tours visit up to five sections of the lava tube network and offer a comprehensive introduction to the geology, history and ecology of the area, including a rare chance, mainly in summer, to see snakes, suspended from tree branches, catching micro-bats as they leave their cave to feed at sunset.
This is one of Queensland’s tourism spectacles and well worth the trip to Undara alone, but a drive of a few days out of Cairns that takes in the ATHERTON TABLELAND, THE CHILLAGOE LIMESTONE CAVES AND THE HISTORIC MINING DISTRICTS AROUND IRVINEBANK, HERBERTON AND RAVENSHOE OFFERS ONE OF THE BEST SOFT ADVENTURE DRIVE EXPERIENCES IN THE STATE.
John Write - The Courier Mail - May 9th 2008
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