Day 1

We left Bathurst at 5am and a chilly -2°. While 9am was a little too early for Di and I, Matt started the holidays with a breakfast beer. Landed at Cairns and reeeeally enjoyed the heat. Ourもっと詳しく
Day 2

Picked up a car and decided to drive to Port Douglas. Didn't see any crocs but we did visit a mango farm and bought some mango wine. Finished the day with Thai takeaway on the boardwalk.
Day 3

Up early for white-water tubing through the rainforest....picture shows who fell in and who didn't 🤣. Then off to Botanic Gardens on Gerry's (Gardening Australia) recommendation. Bit disappointedもっと詳しく
Day 4

Another early start as we go looking for Nemo and Dory out on the reef. The travel-calm packet said 1 -2 tablets, so I took 2 and promptly fell asleep. as did Camby. 1st stop was really rough waterもっと詳しく
Day 5 Kuranda Skyrail

We caught the train up to Kuranda today - an old red-rattler - and spent a couple of hours looking around. The butterfly house was pretty but the bird house was better... even Matt enjoyed it! Theもっと詳しく
Day 6 Atherton Tablelands

Today we jumped in the car to explore the Atherton Tablelands. A very long, windy road took us into the clouds and from there we wandered around, stopping at points of interest along the way. We sawもっと詳しく
Day 7 Time to relax

While the boys went to look at tanks - 3rd largest collection in the world, the girls went shopping. Then a short drive to Palm Cove, supposedly the best beach in the far north; we must have got it onもっと詳しく
...and home!

Set off early to catch the flight home. Di felt a bit off when we landed and by "Maccas in the Mountains" was feeling worse. She did a covid test when she got home and was positive...followed byもっと詳しく