Babinda, Qld
Babinda is a typical Queensland town with mainly wooden Queenslander houses, a large wooden pub and when we visit a colourful cafe bursting to the seams with people having Sunday breakfast. The breakfast looks good.
There is a rather solid concrete toilet block in the local park. The sign says that it was originally built as an air raid shelter in 1942. I guess if it can withstand a bomb, it can handle anything!
Never having heard of them and out of curiosity we follow the signs to the Babinda Boulders. There is a campground in the rain forest and a crystal-clear swimming hole in a wide bend of the river. It’s a perfect place to spend a hot day. A half kilometre walk through the rain forest reveals the Boulders Gorge.
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The perfect spot to cool off!
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We love this place, and with family living in Babinda we often visit the Boulders. First visit was when I was 16, on a family road trip, when we saw my father do a massive belly flop off a rope swing. We thought it was funny but he wasn’t amused.
Until recently there was a big branch hanging over the pool, and it was a rite of passage for local kids to climb up there and jump off. One day I watched my daughter in law climb up there and jump, in order to show her little boys that girls could do this kind of thing too.
The State Hotel, originally built by the state government, largely of silky oak timber, is magnificent, as you say, but my favourite building in Babinda is the art deco guesthouse called The Quarters, occupying the old nurses’ quarters for the hospital. I’d love to stay there one day. Check it out!
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We love Babinda. Have stayed at the Boulders a couple of times now. Great pies too at the bakery!
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