Where is the undara lava tubes in australia

Stay on the walking tracks at all times—this reduces the risk of injury, prevents disturbance to native vegetation and reduces erosion. Limit the spread of weeds by ensuring clothes, shoes and gear are clean and free of seeds before arriving at the park. Where no bins are provided, take your rubbish with you when you leave. Feeding of wildlife is prohibited—it can affect the health of animals and alter their behaviour. Leave domestic animals at home—they are not permitted in national parks.

Everything in the park is protected—leave everything as you found it. Tourism information links Ravenshoe Visitor Centre www. Nature, culture and history. Interactive map. Need further information? Send an enquiry. Before becoming a national park, Undara was part of a large pastoral station, known as Rosella Plains. The station belonged to the Collins family and was named after the native rosella plants, of which seven species are found in the national park.

The Collins family now runs Undara Experience from a property adjacent to the park. Undara Volcanic National Park, and much of the Etheridge Shire, is regarded as the traditional country of the Ewamian pronounced yur-amin Aboriginal people. The ancestors of present-day Ewamian people were born, lived and hunted in this area before the arrival of Europeans.

Evidence of Aboriginal occupation includes stone artefacts and scarred trees associated with caves, vine-thickets and springs. Ewamian people today still have a responsibility to care for country. They do this through their involvement in a range of activities, such as cultural heritage surveys and assisting Queensland Parks and Wildlife rangers with land management activities. Page feedback. For feedback not relating to this website's content or functionality please use our feedback and enquiries form.

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May 5, Port Douglas Carnivale festival is back! The Active Explorer 2 hours, moderate fitness, uneven surfaces starts at the Lava Lodge Reception at 8. The great attraction of the Sunset Tour is, as the website explains: "Thousands of tiny insect eating micro-bats emerge from the darkness to find food which attracts Pythons and Brown Tree Snakes that hang from the trees and strike out at the bats to capture a meal.

This once in a life time nature experience runs all year but is at its spectacular best in the Summer Green Season! Visitors climb to the top of the outcrop where they can see the stump remnants of the volcanoes that produced the lava flows.

The guide they are members of the non-profit Savannah Guides organisation gives a detailed description of how the Lava Tubes were formed and points out the main features of the area. There are also warnings about the number of snakes [they don't emphasise this but they insist everyone wears enclosed footwear and it is known that the region is the habitat for, amongst others, the taipan, northern death adder, king brown and a range of pythons and tree snakes] in the area and interesting comments about both the flora and fauna.

The tour then moves on to the lava caves. It is an easy walk to the base of the cave and, once again, the guide explains the fauna of the cave as well as explaining the geological features. In the late afternoon the animals come out and it is common to see kangaroos grazing beside the road and rock wallabies sitting quietly in the bush at the entrance to the caves. The tubes are vast and access is remarkably easy. It is never anything more than a walk down a stable scree slope into the tube.

The area around the tubes is typical scrubby savannah bush country with pandanus, ironbarks, white-barked gums and cabbage gums mixed with remnant rainforest - known as semi-evergreen vine thicket — which occurs in the mouths of the caves. As the National Parks website explains: "Semi-evergreen vine thicket grows in the moist, sheltered entrances to some of the lava caves. The roofs of some tubes collapsed, creating ideal conditions for dry rainforest to grow and wildlife to shelter.

Rock-wallabies, insectivorous bat colonies and owls roost here in the cool. Birds shelter in the fruit-filled canopy and predators lurk in the tumbled basalt terrain to complete the food chain. There are spiders and colonies of the eastern horseshoe bat. The guides are highly qualified and their talks are genuinely informative and interesting. It is absolutely essential to book a trip before travelling to the Undara Lava Tubes.

It is common to see people who have speculatively driven km from Cairns being turned away because a tour is full.