Heritage Cairns

... this was to get their $5 worth or to see more of the topless waiters is debatable but Stu watched in amusement making the most of the 2-4-1 snakebites on offer at the same time).

Needless to say, the next morning got off to a bit of a slow start! When we eventually made it out of Cairns (after a blazing row with the car hire company), we headed straight up to Kuranda, via Barron Gorge (a hydroelectric plant) and Barron Falls (see photos).

Kuranda ...

Our destination is in sight! En-route to Cairns we stopped at Cardwell to see the Big Crab outside what used to be a seafood restaurant, but is now Nan’s Tea House, so you can see the connection even if not so relevant now.

All around as we head up the road, there are innumerable fields of sugar cane and the fields (and roads) are cris-crossed with the winding tracks of narrow guage railways that take the cane to the ...

... of the forest, they eat the fruits of over a hundred tropical plants and thus disperses the seeds throughout the forest. They are an endangered species and fiercely protected, there were many signs warning motorists to be on the look out for these elusive creatures but they were keeping well hidden on my journey up to the Cape, however on the return journey I was driving very slowly and was lucky enough to see a young bird at very close range and later a large fully grown ...

... with our arms linked, so we couldn’t get into any trouble. Still saw some marvelous things, though, including a green sea turtle!!! It was just dabbling about below us, munching on some coral or other, oblivious to the five divers staring at it. Saw all the marvelous reef-ish things, like clams, anemones, pretty pretty fishes and a thousand different types of coral. Sadly, the sun was not coming out much, so the colours were a bit muted ...

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... hours of sleep to sit on a bus to visit the Daintree rainforest and Cape Tribulation. We had lovely day learning about the rainforest which we promptly forgot except the following: The Daintree is a World Heritage Site and covers 2 ½ million acres and is the oldest rainforest in the world. It is home to the rare and shy Cassowary and 18,000 known plants including a number of poisonous plants and vines that catch you with their spikes that ...

... ended up in the middle of the rainforest in the most pitch dark i have ever been in (even when i sleep it's not that dark) with 3 torches between 5 of us. i swear there was no moon, this was dark, very dark. so there we were with our one **** torch between me and trudy stumbling about in the rainforest looking for cute things.so then the guide helpfully points out there's a cassowary lives in this part of the forest and they ...

... whilst Andy preffered the funny looking ones with what looked like noses. It was an incredible feeling to swim off the edge of the reef and look out at absolutely nothing and the same thing for miles below us - only green. We spent hours just swimming around in awe of every new thing we discovered. We spent so long that once I had came out realised I had completely burned my ass. How could I forget to put cream on the biggest thing ...

... with keys and info etc (as advised in their email). Got to my dorm which was 6 berth one and there were 4 bodies around the place. It had 3 bunk beds in the room. There was one comatosed guy on one of the bottom bunks, and two guys lay on another top n bottom bunk who were awake and dressed. We did a quick introduction (with the exception of coma kid as he hadn't stured). Couldn't tell you what they were called as I didn't really take the info in it ...

... the best spot.



I fired off a few photos to see before/after, and they were less than impressive!



However, soon the sky behind us started to show off some amazing colours...



...throwing the first beams of sunlight onto the face of the ...