We had a nice morning in Brisbane, we walked round the city a bit - the river runs through the city and there is a man made beach there which is beautiful. We then went to the airport and flew for 2 hours to Cairns. We picked up a hire car and drove to Port Douglas for dinner, then on to Crocodylus Village, which is about 2.5 hours north of Cairns and in the Daintree national park - which is the oldest rainforest on the planet. Crocodylus is basically a youth hostel and the accomodation is a tent on stilts - quite civilized in that it has a loo and shower, however the first night Kezi and Trudy were a bit squeemish - there are lots of 'things' lurking. Anyway we survived the night and the next day we set off in kayaks (with a group and 2 great guides) to spend the day and night on Snapper Island. We had a great time and everyone got on really well. It was very relaxing and the weather was just amazing. The best bit of all was lying on the beach after dark and looking at the trillions of stars in a totally dark sky - very humbling!
The next day we did more kayaking, sun baking and snorkelling then back to crocodylus about 4pm - for an early night - we were all knackered.
Up early next day for boat trip to the Great Barrier reef. Another awesome experience - we have never seen anything like it - the coral and turtles and the fish...... Having a snivel into your snorkel mask at the sheer wonder of it all is not to be recommended.
Anyway we are back to Crocodylus for our last night and like every place we have visited we don't want to go.
We can't add a photo as we are having to use the communal internet. We are also not sure how we will get on communications wise next week as we are going to be in our camper van from tomorrow as we fly to Darwin in the morning.