hiya Wow what a day we had today. After recovering fully from the Barrier Reef trip! (see earlier postcard), we decided to have a day at the croc park. Rob has being dying to get up close and personal to the beasts so was delighted to be going. We arrived in time for the morning feed, we saw the salt water crocs and fresh water crocs getting fed and were gob smacked by how sneaky and caniving the salt water onces were, they are so territorial and actu...

hiya We headed to a place called Cape Tribulation today which is north of Port Douglas. We got the ferry over (takes 5 mins) and landed on our own little island. We drove all the way we could in our hire car (the rest of the island further north is 4x4 only) and landed on the most gorgeous beach (see picture to the right) We had a long long stroll on the beach and really chilled and enjoyed ourselves. If we had longer we would have stayed ove...

Hiya We have arrived in Port Douglas and have booked onto our great barrier reef trip. We started off at 8am and headed to the boat for a briefing on safety etc. We headed off and all was well, we arrived at our 1st snorkelling place and got into the sea. We had a yummy snorkel and saw the coral and loadsa fish, someone in the group saw a shark!! We then headed off to the 2nd place, turtle bay. Once in the water it was clear that the water was g...

hiya all We have done a day trip out of Cairns today. We were recommended to do a ride on the sky train and cable car so we thought hey why not. We took the train out to Kuranda, it was an old train (see pictures) and it chugged us up the mountain and though the national park. We learnt loads about how the train line was constucted and how many people lost their lives in the construction. We arrived in Kurands and immediately went to the Koala pl...

hiya We have today made our way from Mission Beach to Paronella Park. We had planned to do a trip from Mission Beach (gateway to the WhitSunday islands) but unfortunately it was cancelled at the last minute due to high winds. We stumbled across this place and were about to turn back when we realised we had to pay 20 dollars to get in, we thought it was expensive to go into a national park. The bloke gave us a 2 for 1 special and we got everything but...