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Ravenshoe, Australia
Hopelessly I scanned through the radio stations and to our great surprise there was music instead of the usual fuzz. The volume cranked, the windows down, life was good! That is until we went down a hill and the music was lost forever. We will never forget those 45 precious minutes.
Since we had exhausted the lyrics on the computer and in our head we decided to host our own radio show… we mostly talked about the scenery and wildlife but it was a good way for me to fill in Marc-André on all the stuff I had been reading in the guidebooks.
We stopped in at the Croyden information center where the town historian and genealogist gave us the 411. He even tipped us off on a great picnic area down by a lake where we could have some lunch.
After lunch by the lake we headed down the road and made it as far as Ravenshoe… pronounced raven’s-hoe and not raven-shoe as I was corrected. We were hopping for two things here: cheap camping and platypus spotting. It was getting dark and no one we talked to even knew what a platypus was and there was no camping in site. We pulled into a viewing area for the Ravenshoe wind farm and spotted a shagadelic looking van. Hippy tourists always have the skinny on cheap places to park and cool things to see.
We walked over and were surprised to see a clean cut, older man reading a local newspaper. He advised us on a 3$ camping ground with showers and a great place to spot platypus in Yungaburra.
We walked away satisfied with the information but something didn’t feel right. Why was a local man reading his paper by a tourist attraction at the edge of town offering up regional knowledge to innocent travelers? Could it be from the kindness of his heart? Not likely! My thoughts went to Wolf Creek and the serial killer who hunted tourists now upset that I hadn’t watched the movie to know his MO. My suspicion was peaked when we saw the seemingly kind man pull into the caravan park behind us, stop and then drive away.
Needless to say, this wasn’t the most peaceful nights sleep as images of mass murder danced through my head. As I am alive and typing you can imagine we woke up unscathed, packed our things and made like the trees.
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