Platy.

After visiting the Whitsunday coast, I headed inland to the Eungella National Park.  The park has a subtropical rainforest sitting in the mountains which has been isolated from other rainforest areas for 30,000 years.  Due to that isolation, Eungella has some flora and fauna found only in the park.  Some visitors come to seek out these unique species (such as the orange-sided skink), but most visitors (including myself) come for the easy platypus viewing.

The Broken River passes through Eungella, and it is home to several platypus/platypuses/platypi/platypodes.  The park has set up a viewing platform above the river a whole 40 m away from a car park.  It was ridiculously easy to spot a platypus or two here.  Odds are better in the early morning or late afternoon/early evening (so I camped nearby), but it’s worth checking at other times as well.  Compared to how much time I put into seeing a platypus while in the Atherton Tablelands, it felt like cheating here.  However, given the effort I have put into past wildlife viewing (and some bad luck with nesting sea turtles), I welcomed a break.  From this viewing platform, you can also spot fish, turtles, and eels.

This video shows the platypus in action.