After leaving Wallaman Falls this morning and travelling a little further south we soon arrived at our destination for the day - the Jourama Falls section of Paluma Range National Park.

Once again we arrived to find the camping ground almost empty but this time we had only needed to drive a couple of kilometres off of the main highway, so we didn't feel quite as exposed and remote as we had done the previous two nights. Once we had got the tent set up in some shade and chased away a couple of bush turkeys from our stuff, we set of on the bikes in search of the waterfalls.

After a short while we came to a creek crossing and had to leave the bikes by the side of the path as we continued on foot across the water. Navigating the stepping stones and hand rails proved a little difficult for those of us with very short legs, but we made it across to the other side safely and continued up the path towards the falls until we came to a lookout platform at the top of the trail.

Unlike the noise and sheer power that Wallaman Falls produced yesterday, Jourama Falls had a tranquil serenity to them with many levels of interlinking drops and pools down to the valley floor. From the top of the rock face to the bottom we counted twelve levels of water pools, each flowing into the next drop that filled the pool below it before in turn dropping into the next pool down.

Once we had taking in our fill we headed back down the path until we reached the bottom of the pools, where we took off across the rocks to splash around in the cool waters. It wasn't until we decided to leave and were back at our tent again that we realised that the official swimming hole was at the entrance to the camping ground, and that we had just been splashing around in one of the pools that it was recommended to stay out of!

By the time we had got back to the tent we felt that we were hot and sweaty enough to brave the camping areas cold shower, which was housed outside in a small tin hut, but even then it was a struggle to stay underneath the freezing water.

One really good thing about the majority of the national parks out here is that most of the camping and visiting areas have free bbq's for people to use and we took full advantage this evening with a slap up barbie!

Tomorrow we should be heading on again towards Townsville and Bowling Green Bay National Park for a few nights and hopefully to find somewhere to watch the footy at a ridiculous hour in the morning!!