This morning I phoned up and booked the River Taxi over to Dunk Island for 11:00 with a return trip back at 16:30 for $30. Then once John and Louise got up and I told them that I had booked the trip over they both decided that they would also like to go over there today so I gave them my phone and they also booked the same taxi for the same times as me.We walked down the beach a little together and we waited for the taxi to take us over to Dunk Island. The jour...

A little bit more off-roading required in order to get off the beach road and back on to the highway this morning but nothing that my Toyota Hiace couldn't handle. LOL. I am heading south towards Mission Beach today but along the way I will be stopping off at a couple of places to have a look around. My first port of call was Josephine falls, still in the Wooroonooran National Park, is a series of stepped clear-water pools and waterfalls. The falls are fed ...

Happy Birthday Michael!!!This morning I was up early so that I could drive 7km west of Babinda town in to the Wooroonooran National Park so that I could start the 12km walk at Babinda Boulders at around 8am in order to avoid most of the people.The Babinda Boulders are a stretch of massive granite boulders that have been sculpted by the fast-running creek. At the lower end is a grassy picnic area with gentle clear-water swimming hole, while walking trails lead up...

Today was quite a long drive (200km) down from Cape Tribulation, back across on the cable ferry, past Cairns and down to a very small town called Babinda with a huge population of 1170 people. My first stop was at the information centre to find out what walks there were in the local area and also to find out where I can park the van for free tonight. I am already regretting hiring the van as I didn't know that you had to pay to park the van everywhere.While...

I leave Dougie's and Port Douglas behind as there is not too much to do here and take a drive up to Cape Tribulation. Along the way I get stopped at a rail road crossing by a narrow gauge train pulling a huge load of about 30 trailers containing sugar cane which is growing in almost every field along the roadside here. I am sure that I will see many of these along my travels down to Brisbane.My next stop is to buy a return ticket for a cable pulled ferry ac...