Cairns

Big 4 – Crystal Cascades Cairns

Stop 11 – 121kms

After driving all around Cairns and calling all the parks we could find (as it appears there are no free or low cost camps near cairns) to find they are all booked out…the Big 4 at crystal cascades, kindly let us stay in their ‘overflow’ area, We ended up staying for a few days and also bit the bullet and joined Big 4 which saved us a few dollars this time but hopefully by the time we make out way around, maybe a few more dollars. We managed to get no photos around the park, which Im not sure why? The park was a short drive from a long winding shallow river that you could swim in, we never made it to the falls at the end but was a lovely area anyway...They even had a free concert and free sausage sizzle…music was for 60+yrs old but was a nice night to sit outside and listen to a live band and eat free snags and salad J

We had thought that we would come back to Cairns after the Cape to work, but accommodation of any description is pretty expensive. I really like the area so maybe another time….

First to the big things!

yet another big banana...

Georges Hi-5 with the Big Captain Cook!

The Captain was going to be demolished but the local pub saved him by putting a big advert on his back!

The Big Cap- we were meant to go back and get a better photo but we forgot...

 We are holding parts of our trailer, electrical, clothes line and many many other things together with cable ties, so we were contemplating getting some bigger ones...hahahahha...wonder if we could cable tie on a wheel with those bad boys!

The Big Cable Ties

The Big Marlin

Big Jelly babies...what a find!

After spending the evening relaxing from big things searching... we decided to go up to Kuranda to the butterfly sanctuary; scooting up via the skyrail (much to Georges delight!) and then back via the scenic railway.

Was a really really (#nice?!!!) day.

view for the first 30mins..

"whats that...I can see through the clouds!"

One of the stops on the skyrail to look at the falls...

which we could hardly see cause of the mist.. still nice rainforest though

George was so relieved when we got the Kuranda and he could get off the skyrail that he celebrated Tarzan style...

Well why wouldnt you kiss a random miner??

I was a bit disappointed with the Butterfly Sanctuary (not really)…the butterflies LOVED Georges, St. George Jersey! And didn’t much like me..I was so jealous…but also a little relieved cause some of them were BIG…and heavy and sort of like a spider crawling all over you…but no when I think about it…im still just jealous… George didn’t enjoy having them attracted to him, there were so many that people were taking photos of him because they were all over him and noone else! Was hilarious!

one of the many "quick get the photo so it can get off me!" moments

this is a close as they came to me...hopping on my umbrella!

The Kuranda scenic railway was awesome, bloody long windy rickety bridges past waterfalls and VERY steep drops, pretty cool though!

"Bye Sherii, see you down the bottom..."

This is what happens when you duck to the loo before the train leaves...
 that lady on the left thought we were crazy pretending to chase the train and miss it...hahahha...was pretty funny!

Baron falls...from the otherside than the view from the Skyrail

the only bridge I could get a good photo of...pretty high and an amazing waterfall beside it...
so good in fact that they had a dinner party on the tracks when the bridge was just completed..would have been fantastic and also VERY scary!

We also dropped into the Cairns Night Markets which was fun…(for me J )

Sand sculptures on the beach outside the Night Markets...

Then to pack up and off to Daintree!