{"id":256,"date":"2012-11-16T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T06:05:28","slug":"road-trip-to-babinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/road-trip-to-babinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Road trip to Babinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babinda,_Queensland\">Babinda<\/a> is the wettest place in Australia. We took a road trip to see its attraction (singular), The Boulders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-13.02.281.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 13.02.28.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-13.02.28.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-12.57.131.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 12.57.13.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-12.57.13.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-12.21.301.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 12.21.30.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-12.21.30.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.46.461.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.46.46.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.46.46.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-12.04.071.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 12.04.07.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-12.04.07.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.29.421.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.29.42.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.29.42.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.46.401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.46.40.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.46.40.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.34.561.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.34.56.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.34.56.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.36.471.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.36.47.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.36.47.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.37.381.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.37.38.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.37.38.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.35.061.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2012-11-16 11.35.06.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/burblechaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wpid-2012-11-16-11.35.06.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Boulders are huge. Some of them must be 10 meters across. The stream was barely moving the sand today, but when some of the annual <strong>eight meters<\/strong> of rainfall falls on the mountain, you can imagine the torrents that move these rocks. There are lots of signs warning of death and worse if you enter the rapids.<\/p>\n<p>We finished up with a ice cream in Babinda. It&#8217;s a small farm town. We felt we&#8217;d entered a time warp to 1955.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babinda is the wettest place in Australia. We took a road trip to see its attraction (singular), The Boulders. The Boulders are huge. Some of them must be 10 meters across. 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