20090619_1516_491 Queens Park (formerly East Mackay Botanical Gardens). The Mackay orchid house is in this park.

20090619_1548_2605 Mackay orchid house

20090620_0900_494 Mackay Botanical Gardens. Still under development.

20090620_0906_496 Mackay Botanical Gardens

20090620_0913_497 Mackay Botanical Gardens

20090620_0915_499 Mackay Botanical Gardens

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20090620_1722_502 Mackay beach and harbour

20090621_0714_503 Plenty of galahs visited our Mackay hotel-room balcony.

20090621_0855_511 Daydream Island

20090621_0856_513 Sea kayakers and catamaran just off Daydream Island. Not such sunny weather...

20090621_1255_523 Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island.

20090621_1358_524 Whitehaven Beach

20090621_1402_526 Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island.

20090621_1556_530 flower on Daydream Island

20090622_1038_535 Airlie Beach

20090622_1039_536 Airlie Beach

20090622_1053_540 Looking back at Airlie Beach, from the yacht club.

20090622_1729_542 Looking for platypus at Broken River (Eungella Dam Road). Every now and again, a ripple appears...

20090623_0658_545 Eungella Chalet

20090623_1016_548 Wishing Pool Circuit, Mackay Highlands (near Eungella)

20090623_1040_550 Wishing Pool Circuit, Mackay Highlands.

20090623_1127_552 Broken River.

20090623_1202_554 View from Eungella Chalet over the Pioneer Valley.

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20090623_1308_559 Shrub at Eungella Chalet

20090623_1421_564 Sugar-cane fields. Road from Finch Hatton to Finch Hatton Gorge.

20090623_1510_568 Finch Hatton Gorge

20090623_1514_570 Finch Hatton Gorge

20090623_1523_572 Finch Hatton Gorge

20090623_1527_573 Araluen Cascades, Finch Hatton Gorge

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20090624_0831_581 Criterion Hotel, Finch Hatton

20090624_0851_582 Old railway station at Finch Hatton