Hi! If you are wondering where manunda is it is a suburb of cairns. The picture above is cane fields, we have been deep in cane field country since the daintree river to here. We spent last night in port Douglas and had a look around the town this morning. You don't have to exert yourself very much to break out in a sweat. We spent time on the wharf watching all the tourist boats heading out to the reef for the morning/day, soooo many people, the town was quiet...

This is my view having my breakfast this morning. The noises surrounding me are from various birds and the irregular dripping of moisture collected by the trees overnight. There is a brown forest floor bird scratching about in the carpet of leaves on the forest floor. Last night we had a bandicoot visit us looking for food in our rubbish he was very cheeky and came right up to our feet. The drive down here yesterday was beautiful and challenging, very steep hills...

Cooktown has a very nice feel about it with lots of interesting history, from captain Cook 's visit to repair the endeavour, after getting stuck on the great barrier reef in 1770, to the gold rush and the 20,000 Chinese migrants who came and went during that time. There are a lot of old relics in the museum from those times and since, and statues and commemorative plaques all over town. It feels like a holiday town with lots of boats moored in the river and fishi...

Sunday 23rd september 2012. Spent overnight at Laura with the kookaburras and other interesting birds at the back of the quinkan pub. Shouted ourselves a meal out at the pub very generous serves, I had 3 fillets of barramundi, yum. Arrived at cooktown at 11:30am booked into the cooktown holiday park big 4, looking very tropical! Great facilities, clean and tidy, well looked after, luxury compared to some we've stayed at, here for two nights to catch up on shoppi...

Today we went searching for world war two relics and were disappointed with some sights on the map as they were not signed. We found a couple of cleared sites where there was, during the war, a telecommunications base and fuel storage depot. Around, bamaga, near the airport were 3 crashed plane relics, we could only find two a Beaufort bomber and Dakota dc3. We had to go bush bashing with an inaccurate mud map to find them and discovered hundreds of empty and rus...