While we were at Atherton we visited the gem shop, where we went down a fake underground cave and saw all the gems and rock from around the world inc the huge one in the pic, the princess of Uraguay. The girls got to crack open their very own geode (a rock with gems inside) and they felt pretty special being the first person ever to see whats inside. After the gem shop we went to a little town called Youngaburra where we went to see if we could see some Platypus,...

After leaving Karumba we headed to a little place called Mount Surprise. its a little town of only 61 people with a really nice caravan park. from here we did a tour of the Undara lava tubes and did some gem fossicking. The lava tubes were pretty amazing with some really nice colors and a lot bigger than we expected. basically when the volcano erupted the lava followed the river beds and the outside formed a crust with the lava still flowing inside, because the l...