The kids woke up around 630 am needing the toilet and in this park they aren't allowed to go by themselves so it meant Nick and I were woken up too! Luckily, I managed to get back to sleep until 8 am but Nick sat outside and read. We had breakfast and then set off for Kuranda. It was a winding drive up into the mountain and it started to rain half way up. Unfortunately it didn't stop until after we got home!! In Kuranda, we found a café and had hot chocol...

Despite waking up early with the traffic noise in the park, we all had a bit of a lie in and a long leisurely breakfast of fresh eggs laid by the chooks at Bivouac Junction. Once showered and dressed we headed into Cairns and parked down by the passenger terminal, then walked The Esplanade. We stopped for coffee and ice cream by the lagoon and then watched the police march past, which included a full police band of bagpipes and drums, celebrating 150 years of...

We were all awake by 7am and were on the road 8. The drive up to Cairns was much prettier then the drive across from the NT border! We were flanked by mountains most of the way and passed endless fields of sugar cane and bananas. Clouds came over and covered the mountains as we hit patches of rain and Jonny thought they were on fire!! We reached Cardwell in time for lunch and had our first glimpse of the ocean - felt like it had been a while! We found a ba...

Unfortunately, Annie didn't sleep very well last night and climbed into bed with us around 2 am. She needed the toilet first so the two of us walked across the camp to the amenity block and saw a few Roos on our way - I miss our ensuite!! By 4 am Nick gave up trying to sleep and moved outside to our camp chairs to have more space! Once everyone was awake at 730 am he came back inside to bed to warm up for an hour as he was frozen. We ate breakfast outside s...

The kids slept through until 730 am and so had had a good twelve hours sleep. Nick and I slept really well too as its so peaceful here compared to the side of the highway!! We had a very slow start to the day and by mid morning the kids had gone round and talked to most people staying here!! We then began a massive cleaning day with Nick and the kids cleaning the car inside and out and I washed all the caravan curtains and windows - anything to try and get r...