Monday 16th. What a day! I hardly know where to start, so at the beginning is probably best. Up early, quick breakfast and picked up from the hotel at 8.25 by a nutty coach driver who proceeded to crack jokes for the next half an hour as he picked up from other hotels and then took us out to the station to catch the heritage train up to Kuranda, high up in the rain forest. He epitomised everything we've always thought about coach tours. Mmm, no further comment. ...

And again, OffExploring won't let me upload one of my own pictures .... Excuse the library shot. Saturday. Woke at 7.30 and opened the curtains on a very grey scene. Mist hanging over the hills opposite. Took a picture - Eddie asked why I had decided to take it in b/w. It wasn't! We've decided to amend our itinerary. The forecast is horrendous the further north you go - torrential rain, thunderstorms, floods - so we have cancelled Cape Tribulation and are stayi...

Thursday, we had a totally different perspective on Uluru and also the magnificent Kata Tjuta range. We took a 30 minute helicopter flight over both. It was a tiny copter, just room for the pilot and four guests. I got to sit up front in the co-pilot seat. Omigod. Glass bubble in front, glass door alongside - and a glass floor just in front of my feet. Don't look down, don't look down. These were the words going through my head as we rapidly rose straight up in ...