It's a bit hard to describe what Paronella Park is. Even the advertisements for it in the Cairns tourist brochures don't really try. To say it's a wrecked pleasure garden just south of Innisfail doesn't do it justice.
A planned pleasure garden, now mainly in ruins
The cottage is intact and used as a museum
Canefields and Mountains
The "Grand Staircase"
Waterfall and swimming hole
The original fountain still works
Ruins of the refreshment rooms
Fruit bats
"Micro bats" on the roof of a tunnel
A glorious ruin
The function of some of the structures is a bit obscure