• HOME PAGE
    • Web Sites We Use >
      • About Us >
        • Our First Camper >
          • Family Pages >
            • Kart Racings
        • PopTop Van
        • HINTS AND TIPS
        • Consider Before You Travel. >
          • Travel Plan Part 1.
          • Planning To Travel in a Van
          • The Annexe
          • THE TANK
          • House Sitting Protocol
      • CMCA Site
      • The Grey Nomads
      • Face Book Page
      • Screw Pegs
      • rockinroos
      • Sat Gear Site
  • The Blog
  • Central Station
  • We Been here
  • Contact Us
    • F.A.Q
  Just Movin Down The Road.
  • HOME PAGE
    • Web Sites We Use >
      • About Us >
        • Our First Camper >
          • Family Pages >
            • Kart Racings
        • PopTop Van
        • HINTS AND TIPS
        • Consider Before You Travel. >
          • Travel Plan Part 1.
          • Planning To Travel in a Van
          • The Annexe
          • THE TANK
          • House Sitting Protocol
      • CMCA Site
      • The Grey Nomads
      • Face Book Page
      • Screw Pegs
      • rockinroos
      • Sat Gear Site
  • The Blog
  • Central Station
  • We Been here
  • Contact Us
    • F.A.Q

Milla Milla Area

The Crater

The Mount Hypipamee Crater, also known as The Crater is a huge diatreme located south-east of Herberton on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is 61 metres in diameter and 82 metres deep.
It was first discovered by accident when in 1879 Weate and party nearly fell into it. They were heading towards the Mulgrave River on a 5-month gold prospecting expedition. The national park was established in 1908 under the sponsorship of Mr Ringrose of Herberton. There was a debate at the “crater trust” meetings during the 1930s as to what to call “the crater”, the "Herberton Crater" was one suggestion but it was decided to call it the traditional Dyrbal name, Mount Hypipamee. A request was written to the Reverend Gribble of Palm Island to find the origin of the name. The name Hypipamee is a corruption of the Aboriginal word, nabbanabbamee, which is connected with a legend of two young men who cut down a sacred candlenut tree, only to be swallowed up by a large hole in the earth the crater.
The water surface is covered with duck weed. Visitors often throw rocks down into the water to hear the loud bang when the rock hits the surface of the water and the noise echos up the sides. Dinner Falls at the head of the upper Barron River gorge is also part of this park
Picture
Picture
We walked out to the crater which is an easy walk for about 900mt and is an deep hole as you look over the side as you will see in the video below and then we took the lower track which took us down to the dinner falls which is made up of a few falls which would be inviting on a hot day.
Picture
Picture
When you see this video you really don't see how far down this hole goes it drops away more than a hundred feet to the water and the deck is over the hole ...

Dinner Falls

          The falls are great and there are a good number of them as you wander down the creek, this place during the summer period must be so busy with people looking for somewhere to cool off, there some many beautiful falls around here and we be visiting some more over the next few weeks.
​          Just to walk aroud in the forest is great the bird life are all about you singing their songs and yet you cant see any they are so well hidden in the bush, if you can get the chance to visit here it is well worth the time and do allow plenty of time you will need it.......

​

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
It is a easy walk around the falls here and I bet during summer the place is packed we were the only people here today and it gives you a feeling of peace and you just want to sit and take in the peace and quiet except for the roar of the water flowing down the creeks

​ 

Millaa Milla Falls and Town

                We stopped of at this town as it so well known for its falls and dairy industry as well as the timber that was pulled out of the rain forest. We checked out the listing on what was for sale and it seems near the whole town is for sale including the main shop which has everything for sale in there.
​                 We had a nice iced Chocolate and home made sausage roll which was rather special. we had a wander about town and visited the Museum which is free to enter and has a lot of history about the area, I have a small video which is below of some of the items there plus a couple of photos.

​
Picture
We had look about here video and photos below
Picture
Picture
this is town and it not big but as all older towns wide streets and it has a pub but very modern
I have no idea but leave to you to work out this, but its in the main street
Picture
Somebody has a good bit of fun here
Picture
And here to a very large tooth pick
Picture
The main shop In town it has everything  

Picture
 These are kept so people see how large the timber trees they fell in those days 
Picture
To see size you may just see Ellen standing to right of stump and she is over five foot high and it well above her
Picture

This is a video of inside the Museum I took as I walked about so you can see the history from around this area
Picture


Millaa Millaa Falls

                           We parked up on the upper level car park and could hear the roar of the falls from here and walked down the 30 or so steps to where the falls were which opened up into a beautiful site with the falls as the centre point and even where we stood we were hit by the cold spray from the water and I could feel for the backpackers who were swimming and they were a bright pink from the cold.

​The ground was very wet from the rain in past days and the grass was very muddy and you had to stay on the pathways, it really takes your breath away, the vista is stunning with the roar of the falls hope the picture paint a view for you.

​
Picture
Millaa Millaa Falls from the roadway
Millaa Millaa Falls close up from edge of pond.
Picture

Copyright © 2022
All rights reserved.

Our Web Site address is:
www.justmovindowntheroad.com
Our Email Address is.
​contact@justmovindowntheroad.com

Designed and built by Dave Smith
​​
  • HOME PAGE
    • Web Sites We Use >
      • About Us >
        • Our First Camper >
          • Family Pages >
            • Kart Racings
        • PopTop Van
        • HINTS AND TIPS
        • Consider Before You Travel. >
          • Travel Plan Part 1.
          • Planning To Travel in a Van
          • The Annexe
          • THE TANK
          • House Sitting Protocol
      • CMCA Site
      • The Grey Nomads
      • Face Book Page
      • Screw Pegs
      • rockinroos
      • Sat Gear Site
  • The Blog
  • Central Station
  • We Been here
  • Contact Us
    • F.A.Q