Last Trip: Queensland, part 1
Day 3 (contd)
Flight to cairns. The scenery is quite a but different, lush rainforest mountains next to ocean. Steamy, humid. Cairns is a surf town with no surfing, because the reef prevents waves. We check into our hostel (my first ever hostel stay), and explore the town's cheap souvenir shops.
Day 4
Breakfast in cairns, then pick up the caravan. Its the same kind as we had in the grampians. Drive south towards Milla Milla to do the waterfall circuit.
We saw different 6 waterfalls over the next few hours.
Raining a lot. One hike warns of a plant that has leaves with stinger barbs that attach if you come in contact with it. The stingers inject neurotoxins that cause intense pain for months. Yikes.
We drive back up north past cairns, to port Douglas. Port Douglas in nice, like a resort town. Whereas cairns was young people, backpackers, loud music bars and nightclubs, port douglas seems Ike a yuppie town. Dinner at a fancy Mexican restaurant. Bats flying around town.
COMING UP NEXT: The main event, The Great Barrier Reef
Flight to cairns. The scenery is quite a but different, lush rainforest mountains next to ocean. Steamy, humid. Cairns is a surf town with no surfing, because the reef prevents waves. We check into our hostel (my first ever hostel stay), and explore the town's cheap souvenir shops.
Breakfast in cairns, then pick up the caravan. Its the same kind as we had in the grampians. Drive south towards Milla Milla to do the waterfall circuit.
We saw different 6 waterfalls over the next few hours.
Millaa Millaa falls, one of the most famous in Oz
Raining a lot. One hike warns of a plant that has leaves with stinger barbs that attach if you come in contact with it. The stingers inject neurotoxins that cause intense pain for months. Yikes.
strangler ferns overtake and kill any tree they come in contact with. life is dangerous for everything here in the tropics.
We drive back up north past cairns, to port Douglas. Port Douglas in nice, like a resort town. Whereas cairns was young people, backpackers, loud music bars and nightclubs, port douglas seems Ike a yuppie town. Dinner at a fancy Mexican restaurant. Bats flying around town.
COMING UP NEXT: The main event, The Great Barrier Reef
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