THE best kept secret in North Queensland is the Undara Experience, a geological attraction that de-myths one of the best preserved and largest lava tube systems on the planet; a place some four hours drive west of Cairns.
Bram Collins is a guide here and visitors on Bram's (or any of the Savannah guide's) two-hour Archway Explorer Tour hear more scientific explanations than an episode of Big Bang Theory.
A violent volcanic eruption some 190,000 years ago saw enormous volumes of 1200-degree molten hot lava spew over the landscape carving deep hollows in the ground. Four to six weeks after the eruption, the walls and roofs around the hollowed areas cooled and hardened, leaving 100 kilometres of perfect arterial action behind.
There is also the Wildlife at Sunset tour for those David Attenborough fans where you can see hundreds of thousands of micro bats flying in and out of the cave.
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Picture Credit: By Jane Farquhar - http://pool.abc.net.au/media/undara-lava-tubes-qld, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17689919
Picture Credit: By Jane Farquhar - http://pool.abc.net.au/media/undara-lava-tubes-qld, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17689919
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