Davies-Creek-Nationalpark

The Davies Creek National Park (English Davies Creek National Park ) is an approximately 4.86 square kilometer national park in Queensland, Australia. Is known of the park for the Davies Creek Falls, waterfalls that tumble over large granite rocks in several stages down.

Location and Access

The park is located in the Atherton Tablelands and is located about 16 kilometers east of Mareeba, 25 kilometers west of Cairns with the Dinden National Park in the immediate neighborhood. You can reach the park via the Kennedy Highway, about halfway between Mareeba and Speewah branches off the Davies Creek Road, on the one reaches the Davies Creek campground at the base of the falls by 6 kilometers.

Landscape

The landscape of the Davies Creek National Park consists largely of Tinaroo Granite, the overlapped partially in the Early Permian, before about 260 to 270 million years ago and scored, putting the existing of metamorphic rock formation Hodgkinson and this. Weathering and erosion of metamorphic rock uncovered the granite. About the exposed rock layers of granite crashing the Davies Creek, a tributary of the Barron River, in several stages about 75 meters down.

Flora and Fauna

The valley of the Davies Creek is characterized by low, open eucalyptus forest with individual Melaleucas and acacia trees and grass and termite mounds. This is also one of three refuges of the endangered Northern Bettong ( Bettongia tropica ) from the family of rat kangaroos.