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balhannah Says: On our way to Murwillumbah after a lovely day trip to NATURAL ARCH, we decided to pop into Clarrie Hall Dam, just for another look, as this time there had been a lot of rain in recent weeks.It was only 1km inland, off the main Kyogle road, so not far to the Dam wall and...
balhannah Says: The Minyon falls is a good chance to see some wildlife. The Goannas (Lace Moniters) hang around the picnic tables, and if you look, you should see plenty up trees, they like to climb. We saw quite a few big ones.Also, A Lizard that you don't often see that we saw here, was...
WATERFALLS NEAR MURWILLUMBAH *2*
balhannah Says: A day trip to the Nightcap national park and Minyon falls is a chance to see wildlife and do some bush walking.These beautiful falls plunge 104 metres into the deep palm-shaded gorge below. The top of the cliffs is forested with Blackbutt and Scribbly Gum while subtropical...
balhannah Says: This is a pretty town located in the Tweed Valley, about 30mins drive from the Gold Coast, in Queensland.Travel past sugar cane fields alongside the Tweed River to reach the town if coming from Queensland. There are quite a few small villages, hobby farms, Banana plantations...
World Heritage Rainforest Centre
tiabunna Says: You will find the Information Office on the bank of the Tweed River in Alma St, near the intersection of the former Pacific Highway linking Murwillumbah with Tweed Heads to the north and Byron Bay to the south. It combines with the World Heritage Rainforest Centre,...
tiabunna Says: Back in 1770, when Captain Cook became the first known European to visit and map the east coast of Australia, he gave names to the more prominent features. Because of the presence of dangerous offshore reefs, Mount Warning was an obvious name for this peak of nearly 1200...
Old “Queenslander” type farmhouses
tiabunna Says: Although this area is in the state of New South Wales, in many ways it has strong resemblances to similar areas in Queensland – not least in the ‘traditional’ architectural style of older wooden farmhouse buildings. A few km out of Murwillumbah, as you head towards the...
Jacarandas – if your timing is right
tiabunna Says: We were fortunate to be visiting Murwillumbah in the jacaranda season. These trees, with their lovely mauve coloured flowers (also intro page heading photo) are native to South America, but are very popular in the coastal areas of eastern Australia. Some 150km or so down the...
tiabunna Says: As I noted in my introduction page, this country town (population about 8,000) is the administrative centre for the district. Life in the area revolves around agriculture and the town is there to provide the necessary support services, although there are plenty of cafes,...
Sajt Says: I f you have nothing to do, just sit out on the portch. You will see this jungle view. You don't need to do anything just listen the voices. You don't have to worry about moskytos.
Sajt Says: Don't try make fire in Australia without any control. We made a dinner, we made fire, but we had full control. Australia is to dry for that.
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I was quite amazed, as we drove into the carpark at the Springbrook National Park, to see an official sign erected by the Parks Service warning of people breaking into cars to steal items. Pauline commented that, to warrant such a sign, it must be a common problem. This was soon confirmed. As we left our car, some other people came down the carpark, telling us and several others who had just arrived that they had just returned to their car and found the window smashed. Everyone hastily double checked that nothing was left in the cabins of our cars. Later, Pauline and I both wondered about a man we saw standing idly with a mobile phone near a large camper van, but not going anywhere and not appearing to be holding a conversation.
In general, theft from cars is not a common problem in Australia. This made me wonder if it might be more rife in areas more heavily frequented by tourists.
Updated Nov 2, 2006
Don't miss Springbrook National Park
tiabunna Says: The Springbrook National Park covers a large expanse of rugged country to the east of the road, on the Queensland (northern) side of the state border. It probably deserves a VT page in its own right but for the moment let’s just focus on the western public entrance to it, a...
tiabunna Says: Still in the Springbrook National Park, you will see many large trees such as this one. With its strangely convoluted trunk, not to mention a butressed base, it looks somewhat like the arboreal version of a gothic cathedral -well, I think so, anyway!The reality is equally...
tiabunna Says: This little fellow is an Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii if you must be formal). Despite the impressive appearance they are harmless. Their main defence is to sit motionless and blend into the background ….well, that’s the theory! This one was...
tiabunna Says: It's another 11km from Chillingham to the Queensland border, with the road winding through increasingly forested country and climbing up the range. The border is on the top of the crater lip of the former volcano. This is not a road for rushing, if you are in a hurry you...
tiabunna Says: 16 km from Murwillumbah, on the road to the Queensland border, you find the little hamlet of Chillingham. If I tell you that this tip includes all the main buildings, you’ll get the idea of its size. It started off, as did so many similar places, with timber-getting....
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Murwillumbah obviously has a strong bicycle racing fraternity. As we stopped to take photographs outside town, we were passed by this group of cyclists involved in a road race. Apparently the race must have had several divisions based on fitness (or age), because subsequently we saw at least two other groups racing on the same route. This first group appeared to be the fittest and gave broad smiles as I took their photo while they cycled by.
Updated Nov 1, 2006
Sajt Says: After the cooking we were hungry, but not so hungry like the Australian. We had a good dinner together. I think they liked our Paprika Poteto. If you like to know how to cooking this food you can write me an e-mail. I will send you.
Sajt Says: We had a great Hungarian dinner with our family in Murwillumbah. We did Paprika Poteto. We had to be carefull because the fire. We always had to have contoll on fire. I think we did a good job.
Murwillumbah and the Border Ranges
After finding the drive north from Coffs Harbour to Brisbane absolutely infuriating (scenic, but narrow, congested and infested with revenue-raising fixed speed cameras), by the time we were near the...
Murwillumbah has a population of 8000 people, and is located on the banks of the Tweed River. The area is pretty as it sits in the Tweed River valley amongst lots of Sugar Cane fields, Bananas......
Sleepy town, but in a stunning area
Don’t pass Murwillumbah by. Unfortunately it’s recently come to fame because the hit UK TV show ‘I’m A Celebrity get Me Out Of Here’ is filmed in the area, but don’t let that put you off. It’s a quite...
I worked for an organisation, call WWOOF -> Willing Workers On Organic Farms. Murwillumbah is a nice place to work
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