Cairns AUS Feb 23rd

We arrived in Cairns Australia this morning. It's pronounced 'cans' by the locals.
Our excursion today is to another wildlife preserve, so we saw more Dingos, Tasmanian Devils, Crocodiles and Wallabies. Many of the Wallabies were not in pens and you could feed and interact with them. The Tasmanian Devils and Crocodiles were not loose and running around. That just makes sense...
After the wildlife visit we had shopping time at Karunda village. No major purchases, just a magnet. Next we took the bus to the top of the mountain for a stop at the rain forest. The trees are at least a hundred feet tall and the vegetation is just solid trees and ferns. It was rainy up top since it is a rain forest. There was a huge waterfall that was very active due to all the rain that Cairns had last week. Part of the lower lands had flooded and the water has now receded.
Then we had multiple cable car rides down from the top to get back to the bottom of the rain forest. Scott is deathly afraid of 2 things - snakes and heights, so he had more than a little issue when we were above the top of the rain forest in a 4 person gondola. He made it down without a mental breakdown.
Instead of going back to the ship with the tour, we got dropped off in town ,where we stopped by a local market that opens in the evening. The crazy , loud Australian lady Kay tagged along. She is a hoot! Scott did a fish foot cleansing where you put your feet into a tub of fish and they clean your feet. I will post pics of this. And no fish were harmed by Scott's feet, however I'm sure they were full when the process was complete in about 15 minutes.
Then we stopped by a pub on the way to the ship, as usual, we found a local pub for some beers and dinner...Read more