64 Australian Geographic
Clockwise from top left: An Australian giant ‘rainforest’
centipede (Ethmostigmus rubripes) crawls out from under
a rock beside the road; the glorious green of the Girringun
NP section of the Kirrama Range Rd; the spectacular drop
of Blencoe Falls, where the Herbert River plunges 90m;
council workers Shane Flanagan (at left) and Chris Sheely
deal with the first of the ‘roadblocks’; at Tuckers Lookout,
the expansive view is across the Kennedy Valley to the
Cardwell Range, Hinchinbrook Channel and Hinchinbrook
Island, which at 40,000ha is one of Australia’s largest
island national parks.