Cairns

We drove from Cape Tribulation down to Cairns and decided to stay in a lace called the northern greenhouse, which we just happened to drive past. We booked to do a trip to the Atherton Table lands with Uncle Brian, on a fun, falls and forest trip. It had been recommended to us by Lorna who we had met on the Rum Runner and had had a night out with.

We had a wander around Cairns and bought some eskies and food and stuff.
The next day we hung around the man made lagoon. There are quite a few of these in Northern Queensland as there are so many stingers in the sea. I was well impressed with this lovely and free facility.
We had been chatting with our dorm mates the night before and we all decided that it was imperative to go and have a few drinks. God damn happy hour. We got back before midnight but this was still pretty late given we were doing a trip the next day.
Our guide, Shereen, was lovely but very very cheery at 8am on a slight hang over morning. I was contemplating doing something very rude and probably illegal with her microphone. This feeling past as the trip went on. We had a guided walk through the rainforest. This was followed by a snack break. We had lamingtons which was most exciting. Especially if you remember Esmie from a country practice. They were pretty good. We had a look at the Babinda boulders. Then we wandered onto Josephine Falls which were too flooded for us to swim in so we went to another falls which I forget the name of.

We then drove onto Innisfail and had a big lunch. Onto swim at Millaa Millaa falls which you have all seen if you have seen Peter Andreas Mysterious girl or a timotei add. Oh yes, we were there and it was most impressive. Especially when Terry tried to copy the timotei add and I could not quite capture it on film.

Then we went platypus watching which was successful. Woohoo, our first sighting of an Aussie animal. It was pretty extreme. Lastly we went to a volcanic lake called Malanda which was lovely and warm after the waterfalls. While everyone was swimming I went to change into warm clothes. When I came back, (all of five minutes later), there were almost no muffins or hot chocolate left and everyone was gone. Yes it is official terry abandoned me to go look at small turtles. I think that says it all. We then headed back to Cairns down the most windey road in Australia. More than 200 bends. No one got sick.

That night we all went out to for a few drinks. Terry and I left pretty early and got some pizza on the way home as we realised that we had not had dinner.
The next day we jumped out of bed, as you can imagine, and headed to Townsville.