Woke up around 9am today - had some scrambled eggs on toast for breakie before departing towards Atherton tablelands. This isn't the normal route people take whilst driving south but reading other travellers blogs, they say the scenery up this way is pretty spectacular! They weren't wrong! First town we hit was Gordonvale, about 20km from Cairns. We then proceeded to drive up a mountain (only word I can give it but with nicer roads) to Heales lookout - we read ...

Lot of trouble sleeping last night mainly due to humidity. Could not for the life of me adjust to it - kept tossing and turning all night. We woke and seen we were parked next to an activities field which had 3 games of baseball going on...f**k, there goes my bond of $2500 we had to put down on the van! We got dressed and had mega quick breakie before booking into same site (but powered tonight). We then set off to Port Douglas, a road that would put the ring ...