He is a well behaved crocodile . . . . . . - Wednesday 19th September 2012 Come morning in the Safari Tent and all is still black. The tent is made from heavy duty green canvas and the windows are roll down flaps of the same canvas so no light, despite the sun having been up for an hour, could penetrate the tent. Breakfast was taken on the veranda, mainly because of the lack of room inside. By unplugging one of the fans and using our own kettle we were able ...

Ferries, Cassowaries and Safari Tents - Tuesday 18th September 2012 Only 141km to travel to Cape Tribulation and our first tent pack up for ages was completed with ease. Just out of Cairns we hit our first road works and lollypop person and our first long delay. With the scenery around so great it didn't really matter as we came across more and more road works. A lot of the road was only 80kmp speed limit and down to less on the twisty mountain bits. Mount...

Monday 17th Sept: Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef. An early start for us today, off to the wharf area in Cairns to do a tour of the Great Barrier Reef. There are so many cruise tours available, it was hard to choose, ranging from very cheap to quite expensive, depending on what was offered. Each tour operator has a licence to go to a certain part of the Great Barrier Reef. We ended up choosing a company called "Passions of Paradise" and we thoroughly enj...

Cairns: Friday 14th Sept2012, Off to Kuranda Dave and I wanted to do some serious sightseeing in the tropical north of Queensland without wasting any time due to the coming wet season, and so the "Caravilla Caravan Park" (3km out of the city) booked us tickets to go to the rainforest little village of Kuranda by train, and back by Skyrail. The morning train trip up through the mountains and valleys was awesome, with Dave hanging out of the train window to ...

Recovery in Townsville and onward to Cairns - 11th to 13th September We took the horror all night flight from Perth to Townsville as it put us in Townsville at 8:00am in the morning of 11th. Once off the flight it was time to get a taxi to the Lockup storage to retrieve the bikes. It took a little bit of time to get the batteries reconnected and panniers etc. back onto the bikes. Since the batteries had been disconnected for the five weeks we had been away...