We ventured back towards Cairns today to travel through the rainforest to Kuranda. The rainforest canopy is vast and stunning, all the better seen through the glass bottom of our cable car - not for the faint hearted! Kuranda is surrounded by world heritage rainforest 1000m above Cairns, the traditional home of the Djabugay people. The first Europeans settled here in 1885, later in the 60's the lifestyle prompted a hippy invasion (still very much in evidence)!...

Our down time continues with lazy days and mellow evenings. Port Douglas is deceptively large, a long high street with heaps of coffee shops and trendy boutiques, quite expensive with lots of visitors and older locals - reminds me of the movie 'Batteries not Included'. We wandered down to the harbour where we found waterside restaurants - too many to fit in before we go home. Port Douglas is very much like the Caribbean, maybe a bit more fancy. We ate at On t...

We have heat & sunshine!! After the wind, rain & hail storms of South Australia it's lovely to arrive in tropical Cairns. The next six days are mostly downtime and chilling out after the madness of the past three weeks. Port Campbell is lovely, our apartment very nice with its own pool deck!