Heale's Lookout, c1935

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View from Heale's Lookout (2000 ft) Gillies Highway, NQ, c 1935

The Argus
Sat 12 May 1934

The Scenic Highway of the North

To-day motorists from Atherton (the largest town on the Tableland and centre of the undulating maize country) and from Malanda in the heart of the dairying district, travel the 50 odd miles to the port in less than three hours. Emerald green paspalum grass paddocks, feeding great dairy herds, replace tropical scrub until the road winds through the 1,225 acre reserve surrounding Lake Barrine. Here, in the stillness and silence, oppressive or invigorating according to temperament, giant trees, including kauri pines 25ft in girth and red cedars even larger, grow 150ft to the light. 

The passage of the Upper Gate is a solemn matter. Cerberus, in the guise of a large gentleman, supplies the check tickets which will indicate to the keeper of the bottom toil whether the driver has taken the prescribed time on the Range. The two gatekeepers converse by telephone, and the "speed king" must therefore curb his impatience and stifle his exhuberance behind the last curves on the road. 


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