70Km from the coast, areas of reef have been cordoned off for visitors. Our high speed catamaran docked to a pontoon and we went snorkelling, also trying Snuba, which uses a divers DV but with the air bottle floating in a raft on the surface. We went on a SeaBob to a less busy area of the reef, outside the cordoned area. The resident Maori Wrasse, Wally, had his photo taken with us, he seems to like being near people and I suspect that he gets fed at the end of ...

By cable car up a mountain into the rainforest and then to Kuranda, a village largely composed of retail opportunities. Back to Cairns via the train, on track laid in the 1890s to service the gold miners.