Heading back to FNQ from Brisbane - Cania or Carnarvon Gorge...
Submitted: Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 08:51
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George C
Hi,
After a wonderful family visit in
Brisbane we are headed back to the Tablelands tomorrow and I wanted some last minute advice.
Initially we were going to go up via
Carnarvon Gorge but on the way down I read about Cania
Gorge and was wondering if it maybe more appropriate?
We are a family with 2 small kids (6&4) and in 4WD with caravan. Cania has the Big4 for the kids and shorter walks but is it really a smaller sibling to
Carnarvon?
So we can do
July 4 - Cania
Gorge or
Roma
Juy 5 - Cania
Gorge walk (suggestions?) or
Carnarvon Gorge (evening walk -suggestions?)
July 6 -
Emerald (after morning walk at
Carnarvon as shorter drive than from Cania)
July 7- somewhere nice between
Emerald and Charters Towers (??)
July 8 - long drive to
Atherton, Tablelands along the Kennedy Hwy.
The Cania option (
http://goo.gl/maps/RCqoi)
The
Carnarvon option (
http://goo.gl/maps/kXv1G)
Thanks,
Reply By: Member - Alan H (QLD) - Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:05
Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:05
IMHO Cania and
Carnarvon are no way similar.
Cania
Gorge has a couple of side creeks with spectacular
rock formations etc and short walks.
Carnarvon Gorge is the main creek and the scale of the place far outstrips Cania. To do justice to the place it requires longer walks. One day come back and do Mt Moffatt on the other side of the range. Different from
Carnarvon and spectacular in its own right.
Both
places are great but I don't believe one is a small version of the other.
Just north of Charters Towers is Fletcher park (free site) on the side of the road.
Alan
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Follow Up By: George C - Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:37
Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:37
Thanks Alan -it seems as if Cania is more appropriate for this trip and we plan
Carnarvon for when we have longer to spend (3 nights) and the girls are older for the longer walks.
I wonder if we are able to get from
Emerald to
Greenvale within a days drive - then the next day we can by-pass The Lynd and go to Mt. Garnet via Valley of Lagoons - Mielings Mill.
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Reply By: Kris and Kev - Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 10:25
Wednesday, Jul 03, 2013 at 10:25
Agree with Alan, very different
places.
Carnarvon walks are long, if you want to do them all. If you go to Cania
Gorge get a mud map and drive up to the old gold
mine and to the plane wreck. Just
check that they have not had much rain as there are several creek crossings and they do get cut. But they are great drives, not difficult if dry. Kevin
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