Forgot to say that of course it was the Great Barrier Reef we snorkelled on yesterday. Today the sea was dead flat whereas yesterday it was choppy. Made for a very exciting trip with less people so was good. This morning we were up again at the crack of dawn. Our bus picked us up at 6.50am for a trip north to Daintree Rainforest and Cape Tribulation. Catherine would have been bored with this, but we really enjoyed it. We started off getting 'smoked' by an ab...

Up early this morning to be collected for our trip on the Karunda Railway. Ross and Louise had to take the earlier train and have to leave early, as they are flying back tonight to be at work tomorrow. We went up on the train which was a great trip through the rainforest, as we got higher the clouds were starting to break up a bit and by the time we got to our destination it was sunny. Leaving the station we heard someone shout "hey grandad" and it was Ross an...

Well we are off up North to sunny Cairns. Wrong, we arrived and it was chucking it down with really low cloud. The hotel is superb and room vary spacious. Ross and Louise came over to see us and we went for a walk around Cairns and stopped for a beer. We continued around the marina then it was hungry o'clock. We found a good Italian restaurant and then continued on for a couple of beers after. Good night was had by all. Got to be up early tomorrow for our ...