Heading south now on the Bruce Highway we drove for 2 days through some forests, but mostly through sugar cane and banana plantations. The first night we stopped at a small town called Innisfail and met some plantation workers relaxing with a few 6 packs. It was Friday night. We had been allocated a pitch near them but suspecting a noisy evening we sneaked of to a further pitch. Peter had noticed that a comedian was on at the local hall so we decided to have an e...

We left the Tablelands driving down on Gillies highway, a very windy, steep and picturesque road. We were heading to Freshwater just north of Cairns to be close to the train station as we had booked ourselves on the Kuranda scenic railway up to yes - Kuranda and the skyrail cable car back. The Kuranda narrow gauge scenic railway (37kms of it) was an engineering feat of tremendous magnitude, so the guide says and I would have to give credit where credit is due a...