Day 71 Cairns - Paronella Park - Innisfail - Tully - Cardwell - Lucinda "Get on that sugar train There is some place For everyone....." We became sugar experts today! Well not exactly growing the cane but once Farmer Joe hacks it into little pieces - we're good from there ! We awoke to Pancake breakfast day at the park in Cairns - put on free every Thursday. The kids have been hanging for this since we arrived! They each ate 3 full plate sized pancakes with...

Day 70 Cairns - Lake Barrine - Yungaburra - Atherton - Mareeba - Kuranda - Palm Cove - Cairns "I was drivin drivin drivin down the 101...." Today was a tourist driving day. We left Cairns at 9 and headed back into the mountains for a look around. We drove up the narrow winding road to the to overlooking Cairns and up to Port Douglas and the Daintree. Our first stop was Lake Barrine where we looked at the Curtain Fig tree where a fig has moulded into and kil...

Day 69 Cairns "lifestyles of the rich and the famous, they're always complaining......" Did the drive by of Cairns today. Stopped by the Esplanade to watch the Howells board their GBR helicopter to wherever on the Barrier Reef. Thurston dressed as usual of course and Luvvy looked a treat too ! That excitement over we drove by all the usual Cairns sights before returning home via the Stockland Shopping centre and off course Dan Murphy's. The afternoon was spe...

Day 68 Innot Hot Springs - Ravenshoe - Cairns "one banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more....." Sugar to the left, Bananas to the right.... A totally different driving day today. We left Innot at 9am after another plunge in the hot pools and continued our journey towards the coast. We stopped at Millstream Falls which are the widest falls in Australia and is a pretty little spot. Shame you can't camp there overn...

Day 67 Georgetown - Mt Surprise - Undara Lava tubes - Innot Hot Springs "cause I, I am going to explode, detonator set to go, I'll be human volcano...." We left the pretty Georgetown to continue our journey East towards the coast this morning. The Gulf Development Road is a mixture of narrow dual lane roads and narrow single lane roads. Always fun when the road trains come flying thru on the single lane when you're towing a van! We stopped at Mt Surprise - wh...