Saturday, September 22, 2007

Cairns, Australia

Well, our first full day in Australia......playing tourist..well that is what we are I guess!

After having a cup of coffee (instant----but hot) and an English muffin in our room we headed out to check on taking the Skylift to the rainforest and Kuranda village. We took the skylift up and making 2 stops on the way we took a few walks through the rainforest. One with a guide and heard a brief lecture about local plants. Interesting! The scenery was beautiful and we took a good number of pictures...can't always do it justice however! The Barron waterfalls and river were beautiful as we looked down into the gorge. We returned on the train which took 1 1/2 hours and then a bus shuttled back to the parking at the skylift.

We are going out now to find dinner. We are repacking tonight so we can leave a couple of bags here while we go to Sydney and Melbourne Monday. Tomorrow we will probalby go to Tjapukai an Aboriginal culture park.

More later.........hope all is well with you.
Jim and Mary

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