G'Day Well our time in Cairns is whizzing by so fast and the days are so jam packed. We have had another day out today to Kuranda. After being dropped at the Caravonica terminal outside Cairns we boarded the Skyrail for our 7.5km (4.5 miles) trip to the town of Kuranda. The trip is done in 2 sections, firstly its the the short 2.8km section to Red Peak Station over the top of the forest canopy looking down into the rainforest it is pretty amazing. Once we disemb...

G'Day Sports Today we have been further North to Cape Tribulation and back. As usual our tour started bright and early and off we drove up the Cook Highway (named after James Cook,the explorer) to our first stop of the day which was a beautiful piece of rainforest at Mossman Gorge. We took a brisk 30 minute walk under the canopy and across a suspension bridge to complete the circuit. Australian rainforest covers only 0.1% of the continent so is very special. We...

G'Day Not too much to report today as it has been more of a doing day than a seeing day. Tried to lie in but still got up at 8.30 yes I know its late to some of you but we are bums now lazing around and enjoying life!!! Once up Mel organised our next 4 days in Cairns with various things to do including Cape Tribulation, Karunda Railway, Tjapukai aboriginal experience and the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday so that is why we needed the lie in today!!!! Took a le...

G'Day Guys I hope you haven't missed the blogs too much the last few days we have been internet free so I shall update you on our last few days now. We arrived in Airlie Beach on Saturday morning at 6.15am after our overnight bus from Hervey Bay. We spent the day around the town catching up with jobs and visiting the market that they have on weekends. We spent a liitle time on the beach and watched the camels, yes they had camel rides but they were so busy we d...

G'Day Guys It is really starting to hot up here now and by 8am it was boiling hot. As we leave today on the overnight bus to Airlie Beach we decided to spend the majority of the day at the marina that they have here. We stopped for morning tea and watched the whale watching boats going out for the day before walking along the coastline to the huge long pier that they have here it used to be 256 metres longer than it is now. It was a 1.5km walk in the hot sunshi...