After leaving Undara we travelled north thru Ravenshoe, Atherton and Tolga to free camp at the Rocky Creek Memorial camping ground.

Ravenshoe is the highest (elevation wise) town in Queensland, so we decided to have our morning tea there. After our stop we travelled further north to Atherton, and Tolga and then onto the camp ground. After camp was set up, it was back to Atherton for some provisioning.

Atherton is the centre of the Atherton Tablelands and is quite a large town, much bigger than we thought it would be. In the past, town’s were measured by the size of their church or pub. Now if you see a Bunnings or Macca’s, when you come into town you know its a decent size and Atherton had them all. All the major food groups were covered, Macca’s, KFC, Pizza, Chinese and Indian, also lot’s of cafe’s.

Our camp area for the night is a memorial ground at Rocky Creek which was the site of 2 Army General Hospitals during WW2. In fact the hospitals, at one stage were the largest in the Southern Hemisphere with over 6,000 personnel on site.

Now its a large memorial ground that allows free camping and the Grey Nomads are taking advantage of it as it was packed. One of the highlights was the memorial stones recognising the many military units that served or formed from the Atherton tablelands during the WW2.

Its been amazing visiting or viewing all the war memorials around Australia, from big to very small towns country. Each place recognises and remembers what their locals have down in protecting Australia in all its conflicts. Rocky Creek was another special memorial.