Awoke to the alarm at 7am cos of early start required for drive back almost to Cairns for the Kuranda excursion.
Train up to the top, taking 90 mins, some glorious views of the rain forest but mainly of the cuttings needed to carve a way up around the sides of mountains. Big long train full of happy camera snappers.
Walked through the ran forest / jungle seeing lots of enormous trees and one whopping big spider.
Nice river, sporting tadpoles and helicopter dragon flies, let alone trippers.
Lunch at Kuranda itself, teeming with knick-knack shops and eager buyers. Resisted.
Visited the bird sanctuary to see a whole array of exotic species. This bloke seemed to have a knack with the parrots, ungenerously responding by crapping on his shoulder.
Took the Sky Train back down, really just mis-located ski gondolas but alarmingly high above alarmingly tall trees. Stopped for a very entertaining mini boardwalk tour by a Djabugay ranger, combining facts about the trees with local anecdotes and a fair bit of kidology.
Back to Port Douglas for the fastest ever meal. Ordered barramundi, served up within minutes, out within the hour, back to the Lazy Lizard for coffee and choc. Early to bed.
Oh, and the weather. Hot and humid, with several showers and one downpour at lunchtime. Tend to forget the aircon is on everywhere and think it's getting a bit parky. Then step back out into the sauna heat.
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