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More driving and more crocs!
We decided to head up towards Daintree and take a Croc spotting river cruise. Its an hour and half drive away so a bit more road trip! We see a tree snake, a couple of year old crocs who are very small, a white lipped green tree frog, a kingfisher, a 6 year old croc and then 2 large females. So at last we have seen Crocs in the wild. We went with …
Kuranda
Another early start, poor Jack! Rosemary, the hotel manager, gave us a lift to the train station to get the scenic railway to Kuranda which is a small village high up in the rain forest. The journey takes 2 hours and is fantastic. Such wonderful views. We stop at Baron Falls a hydro electric thingy with beautiful waterfalls. (Makes water break its …
Shopping!!
We pack up the tent for the last time and put a notice on the camp site board to try and sell it and the other camping bits we have brought. Then we go and check in at the hotel we are staying at until we fly to Auckland on Tuesday. The lady on reception is a real character, I think we are going to get on!
We wander round Cairns for the …
A Night in Cairns
Because our flight to the Whitsunday's is early in the morning, we are overnighting in Cairns. We take a milk run shuttle from Port Douglas to the Heritage Cairns (decent enough room) and then head out for a day in Cairns. We take both our umbrellas and our towels (and use both) down to the Esplanade. The beach here at Cairns is not nice. It is a …
Cairns-ival
After bidding our lovely family in Melbourne adieu, we boarded the discount airline Jet Airways and crossed the great continent of Australia by air. Once the plane touched down, we were greeted by our first real expense in Australia to date: a short cab fare. After grabbing our bags, I hailed a cab from the side of the Cairns airport entrance. To …