Day 19 Thursday 10th July Palm Cove To be honest, the noise from the 'game', (QLD won by the way.....so saving a whitewash!), did not bother us and we fell asleep before it was over. The night was quiet until we were awakened at around 3.30 am with a commotion in the car park just outside the campground........very loud 'doof doof' music and equally loud yelling and cheering. It lasted for about 30 minutes, then suddenly stopped....someone must have called the...

Day 18 Wednesday 9th July Palm Cove - Cairns -Palm Cove (46km return) It was a warm night with no morning dew. Our camp site proved to be a great spot for early morning sun, and so we have re-booked for the end of next week when we return here to have the car serviced in Cairns .....next Thursday was the earliest we could get a booking. I did some laundry and then after breakfast we had a morning walk followed by a coffee shop coffee! Then we phoned our ins...

Day 17 Tuesday 8th July Mareeba to Palm Cove (50km) It was very cold this morning and everything left outside was VERY wet. Fortunately the chairs were not! (We took them inside overnight). We went for an early morning morning walk, which proved to me more of a scramble over giant granite boulders, and quite tricky in places. However it was lovely and peaceful, just us and the rock wallabies! One of the rocks had giant dinosaur footprints in it! (See photo!). ...