The next few days were to be spent exploring some of inland Queensland at the Atherton Tablelands which are known as Australia's "highlands"! An area once completely covered with forest the majority has been felled to make way for the growing of tea, coffee, bananas and sugar cane. There are however pockets of forest left which can be explored in more detail in a couple of days. On route to the campsite we stopped at a coffee plantation to take in a tou...

The next day was to involve a little more driving than we had been used to as we were heading as far north as you can go in a 2 wheel drive vehicle to Cape Tribulation and on the way we intended taking in some of the Daintree Rainforest. It is within the jungles of northern Queensland that they film "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" so we were keen to do a bit of exploring in the jungle ourselves to see if it is as scary as its made out to be! In ord...

The next stop was the lovely seaside town of Port Douglas however on the way we stopped to take in the nearby Crystal Cascades creek walk. We soon realised that walking in 30° 's is a very different experience than the temperatures we had grown accustomed to walking in during our stay in New Zealand and about 3 minutes into the walk we were sweating profusely and wondering if this was such a good idea. Fortunately it was a pretty short walk as the so called Crys...

So after a pretty painless couple of flights we arrive in Cairns on schedule at lunch time. Now immigration is never one of my favourite parts of arriving in a new country as even though I know I am doing nothing wrong the on the spot questions always make me feel like a criminal. Imagine then my face when we get to the immigration desk and there is a lady waiting for us in order to "ask us a few questions" I could feel my blood pressure and stress leve...