Mt. Etna Caves National Park is a limestone outcrop from ancient coral reefs. It has been named after the volcano in Sicily, of course... (vuriously though, why does there have to be an "old continent" equivalent for everything?). There's caves and bats, e.g., the little bent-wing bats and ghost bats.
There's a cave, although you can't enter it too far as there's a locked gate. The cave is just behind the park building in the Camoo picnic area, in coordinates S 23.163446 E 150.466484. This cave had probably hundreds of butterflies.
Actually there are many caves but I could find one in the limited time I had. From the Queensland page (link below) you can see that there's actually two locations, and to enter a bigger cave one has to be not in Camoo but in the Mount Etna Bat Cleft. Follow the Rossmoya Road to get there.
For more information, see the park page, wikipedia, and Queensland page.
Flora:
More information about other caves I visited in the area can be found from these articles:
- Tamborine Mountain Glow Worm Caves
- Sprinbrook's Natural Bridge
- Mount Beerburrum Bat Caves
- Paradise Caves at the Sunshine Beach
- Capricorn Caves
Read more urban exploration stories from theurbanexplorer.net, and other underground stories from planetcaver.net. Read the full Planetskier series at planetskier.net, or all blog articles from Blogspot or TGR. Photos and text (c) 2024 by Jari Arkko, map picture is a snapshot from Google Maps. All rights reserved.
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