We did a day trip to Port Douglas and Mossman. Port Douglas had changed beyond anything I recognised from 15 years ago - it must have been a different town I went to. I couldn't find anything to recommend it now really. However we went on to Mossman Gorge, which must be the most accessible and beautiful gorge in the area. There was a traffic jam to get in if you can believe it!! The walks are all easy and short and you can swim in the river (which we did - t...

Despite the fact that it poured with rain we had quite a good time at Kuranda - there is an excellent butterfly sanctuary that was quite good value and all the butterflies would come and land on you.....always good fun. We learnt a lot about the different sorts of butterflies and how they each have their own host plant and they only lay eggs on that one plant as that is the plant that the caterpillar will eat upon coming out of the crysallis. Pretty clever real...

We spent 5 nights in Cairns which was much longer than we had intended, but packing up wet canvas seemed pointless so we did day trips to some of the places we thought we might stay. The picture for this postcard shows the only dry afternoon in Cairns but it looks threatening, though we did have a dry but grey day on Green Island (27km off the coast). We stil did loads of things and had a great time. Cairns was even quite warm at night. The caravan park had a...

Wallaman Falls are the highest falls in Australia and of course it was raining the day we went and the cloud was so low that we couldn't see anything from the lookout at the top. It was a fairly steep and windy drive up there, so Rich was determined to see something so he and the boys walked to the bottom. Cath and Claire did some reading and schoolwork in the car up the top waiting for them. However they did see something of the falls when they got down out o...

We have very brave children - the parents were wise enough to just take the photos. You will find a photo of each of them doing this, though it is interesting to note that Claire went first and then in reverse age order.