Hickory Road Rosewood Drive Hickory Road Jerey Road Kuranda District State College Kuranda Aquatic Centre Barron River Myola Road Myola Road Oak Forest Road Fairyland Road Jarawee Road Fern Tree Place Oak Forest Road Scrub Street Black Mountain Road Mountain Black Fan Palm Place Greene Lane Warril Creek Coconut Grove Haren Creek Boyles Road Kingsher Drive High Chapparal Road Monaro Close Butler Drive Gregory Terrace Daniel Place Shiva Close Cairns Hinterland Steiner School Spear Road Bangalow Place Barnwell Road Leilas Way Christensen Road Visitor Information Post Office Walking Trail TO CAIRNS Centre Salamone Drive Easy Walking Public Toilets Train Station 1 KURANDA 0 500m Trail AY HW Village in the Rainforest Moderate IG Parking Skyrail Y H 4 Walking Trail ED N B N a Medical E r Police Station Lookout K r o Centre 2 n Ro Victor Place b Veivers Dr R Saddle Mountain Road i v TO MAREEBA e 3 r Pharmacy Fire Station Playground d lls R TO CAIRNS n Fa rro a 5 ATM Church WiFi B Supermarket Library ek e r C Barron River m RV and Caravan u Petrol Jumr Weir Rd Parking Ba rr Kuranda Public o n Din Din Bus stop F Telephone a Cemetery lls 5 (Barron Falls) Rd Lookout KENNEDY HIGHWAY d Morong St a o R Thongon St s n o KURANDA as M ORIGINAL Jetty RAINFOREST Trail Markers Wrights MARKETS 1 Market Walk Lookout 1 2 Jumrum Walk Jungle Walk 3 k Thoree St ree River Walk urpris C 4 S e KURANDA Therwine St 5 Barron Falls Walk HERITAGE Jumrum Creek Conservation Park Barron Gorge National Park MARKETS Coondoo St 4 Kuranda Arara St Meeroo St Centenary Park r D s d r R Barang St hts e ig v Existing Proposed randa He i Ku e Jumrum Creek Myola Rd V b o R 2 Caroona St Glen Creek Road Trail Public KENNEDY HIGHWAY Monty St Library Railway Barron Falls Rd t S River/creek rs Warril Creek Morton St e Kuranda iv Ve Amphitheatre Catchment boundary Rob Veivers Dr Major park Local park TO MAREEBA Information centre 3 Static demographic user group Rd Falls Barron For more information: Kuranda Visitor Information Centre Places of interest 07 4093 9311 TO BARRON FALLS [email protected] 5 Amphitheatre www.kuranda.envirocare.org.au or visit www.kuranda.org Fenced dog park Punch Close Ardmore Park Rd Kullaroo Cl Shane Court Kuranda Cr Coolsprings Cl Forest Cl Hilltop Close Greenhills Rd Barron Falls Rd Barron River Warril Drive Jumrum Creek Hope Close Hope Weir Rd Streets Creek Outlook Cr Haren Creek Kuranda Recreation Mount Haren Road Centre Fallon Rd Masons Rd Jumrum Creek Rainbow Creek Wrights Lookout Rd Spring Crescent Jumrum Close Mervyn Creek Penny Close Wattle Close Platypus Close Sandalwood Close Williamson Drive JUMRUM WALK 30 MIN/1.4km MARKET WALK 10 MIN 20 MIN/760m RIVER WALK 18 Fig (Buda) The beauty of figs That looks good enough to eat! in Centenary Park – Ficus benjamina Ficus is a diverse genus, found in all lowland tropical rainforests. Over 1,200 species “Bush tucker” Aboriginal (Bama) foods (ma:) from the forest “Queen of the Djabugay” feed on figs, because a fig is always fruiting somewhere and so are critically important A feature of Aboriginal rainforest (bagarra) food use is the unusually large Grandma Nywarri used to wildlife when other fruits are not available. Many are also pioneers and play a number of toxic plants eaten as staples. Treatments with heat or water were to sit on the rocks to the significant role in forest succession in the tropics. See 17 18 used. Here are a few non-toxic ones with their aboriginal (Djabugay) name. right of this tree. 17 Fig (Buda) at Heritage Markets entrance – Quandong (Murrgan) – Elaeocarpus grandis Ficus virens 16 Shiny blue seed, thin greenish flesh is eaten. 1 Brown apple (Wanggabal) – Syzygium kuranda No bushwalking experience required. Track surface is Nutty flavoured seeds inside hard casing, Dense fruit clusters on branches. Fruit tastes hardened or compacted and bright red old leaves. Food for pigeons, like old, dry, floury apples and was used as a may have gentle hill sections cassowaries, fruit bats and other birds. medicine for diarrhoea. and occasional steps. Dropping May to August. 15 Black bean (Yiwurra) – Castenospermum australe 2 Wait-a-while/Lawyer cane (Yabulam) – Calamus australis Kids play boat races with the hard sharp- ended seed pods. Seeds are toxic but were Don’t tangle with this or you will ‘wait a while’ eaten after 3 days preparation. to get untangled. Berries and cane were 16 roasted and eaten. Water is obtained from 17 cut cane. 14 Red bead seed (Gidi-gidi bawu) – 3 See Fungi below Adenathera pavonina 4 Alexandra palm (Bibiya) – Seeds are toxic but were used as Archontophoenix alexandrae 18 inflammation treatment. Leaves The heart of these and other tall rainforest and bark used for diarrhoea. palms were eaten raw or cooked. Sheaths used to make water containers. 13 Weeping paper barks (Diwirri) – Melaleuca leucadendra 5 Cadaghi (Nambar) – Corymbia torelliana Sweet smelling white flowers attract masses of bird life and bees around Eucalypt of the rainforest. Trail 1 KURANDA August and September. Stop, look and Smooth greyish-green bark on the upper COMMUNITY Markers PRECINCT listen, you can hear them call. trunk. White flower clusters September to October. 30 MIN/900m JUNGLE WALK 6 Sour plum (Munumba) – Davidsonia pruriens 12 Coral berry – Ardisia crenata Taste is tart and juicy, makes wonderful What’s a weed? A plant in the jam available commercially. Feel the very wrong place. This naturalised plant distinctive hairy leaf. Dropping June to December. 13 in New South Wales is an example of a non-local plant in the wrong How many different leaf shapes can you find? place. It gradually shades out all There are at least 20 in this regenerating other understory plants and is spread by birds. rainforest. See 7 8 9 10 12 11 Perching epiphytes – basket fern - Drynaria rigidula 60 MIN/2.8km BARRON FALLS WALK Look up to the tree tops. Basket and Birds’ TO BARRON FALLS Nest ferns, pencil orchids and vines seek There are several places where the Barron Falls power the light in different ways. station weir and intake tower can be sighted as you Southern cassowary walk to the Barron Falls lookout. As you pass over What’s so special about fungi? Brush turkey (Wawun) – (Bunda:rra) – permanent creeks and ephemeral gullies, there are Alectura lathami Casuarius casuarius small populations of the iconic Kuranda Tree frog Fungi are critical to life in the rainforests. Many live in wood and soil, recycling endangered present. Hidden in the tree tops during the day, their nutrients to be reused by other plants and animals. Many only live with certain soft mating calls can be heard at night. plants in beneficial symbioses. We usually notice them when they reproduce by spores as mushrooms, puffballs, jelly fungi and many other diverse forms. How many different fungi can you find? KURANDA NATURE TRACKS There are at least 15 on this walkway. See 3 – a self guided experience.