Granite Gorge Nature Park
Boulder-strewn bushland park where wild rock-wallabies can be hand-fed on marked trails.
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About this audio guide
Granite Gorge Nature Park near Mareeba, on the Atherton Tablelands outside Cairns, turns on a trade of appetites between visitors and the wild Mareeba rock-wallaby, a species found only on a scatter of granite mountaintops nearby and only recognized as its own species in nineteen ninety-two. This guide follows how that shy animal came to line up at the boulder trails for a bag of feed, and why staff insist on marked feeding spots. Stand there at dusk, when the boulders cool and the wallabies come down to eat.
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