Posts Tagged With: Kuranda

Day 14: Port Douglas

I am having such fun with my pink laptop, writing the blog, checking emails and keeping in touch.  In Kuranda, my American friends drew my attention to a market stall where the vendor was selling natural spa products.  The scent from the stall was “to die for”.  I bought a small tub of body scrub which left my skin feeling incredibly soft and healthy since.  Pre-Internet days, I would have had to fill my suitcase with a lifetime supply of these lovely Australian products.  Instead, I took the website address and will order online.  Before you ask, I left the web address with the other half of my luggage in Cairns but I will share it when I am reunited with my belongings.

Today was a free day to explore Port Douglas, a lovely sea side town at the start of the beautiful Four Mile Beach.  The town was busy with Australians on holiday.  A more remote part of Four Mile Beach was closer to my hotel.  It was accessed via a 5 minute pathway through a forest.  The path was rather spooky; not sure if I was more worried about human or animal predators, snakes or coconuts falling on my head.  I didn’t hang about long.  The beach itself was stunning and well worth the risks.

Ann x

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Kuranda (a village in the Rainforest)

This morning, while waiting for my pickup from the hotel, I met a really nice American Mum (science teacher) and daughter (flies jet planes for the US Navy). These were my travel companions for the day.

We were part of a large group who took the scenic train ride into the mountains above Cairns to the Kuranda Rainforest. On the way we gazed at the scenery and listened to the amazing story of the hardships endured by the navvies (many Irish, English, American and Italian) who built the railway in the late 1800’s. Upon reaching Kuranda, we were handed our schedules for the day: shopping, BBQ lunch, guided tour of the wildlife park, display of Aboriginal sports and exhibition of Aboriginal dancing, a trip through the rainforest in an Army Duck and finally journey back by Skyrail (apparently the longest cable car ride in the world).

Highlights were the Army Duck through the awesome (word borrowed from my kids) rainforest and the Skyrail trip over the tops of the trees right back to Cairns. The forest was dramatic, nature at its rawest and most beautiful. I took a lot of photos – hopefully they give some sense of the amazing scenery.

Ann x

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