We had a good night sleep and it wasn't as hot as we thought it would be. We got sorted and had brekkie and headed towards the information centre. We decided there wasn't great deal to see or do in Mareeba and so headed down to Atherton instead. We had a mooch about town and got our snorkeling photo's developed. Atherton was less touristy than the other places we have visited and it was nice to see a 'real' Australian town. We then went to a lookout called Hol...

Today is officially the first day of the summer, not that you would have noticed, as it's been so hot! We left Port Douglas to head back to Cairns to pick up the camper! We took Holly back to the rental place and they were due to take us to collect the camper but because it was returned late the previous day, it was delayed in being ready for us. So, to fill the time we went for a mooch in the shopping centre, again!! When we returned we were very excited as the...

After a brilliant night sleep we headed to reception to wait for the people to come with the new wheels. We were waiting a while and were expecting a proper 'rac' style van but when a couple turned up in a car and started looking at Holly we realised we were wrong! They were family of people who worked for the hire company and were on holiday and offered to come out and fix our car! How lovely of them! Once Holly was sorted we set off on our way. We made a few s...

We were up bright and early ready for our day trip on the 'rum runner' out to the Great Barrier Reef! We were very excited until we checked on Holly and had a rather unpleasant surprise! Both of her left hand tyres were flat, one completely and the other nearly there! 1 we could have dealt with, but 2?!! And we were in the middle of the rainforest, had no reception on our phones and it was Sunday! Great!! There wasn't much we could do as the minibus came to colle...

We got up and packed our bags and loaded the car ready to head to Cape Tribulation. We had a mooch around Port Douglas first as we hadn’t had chance during the day. There are lots of boutiques and small restaurants, quite posh and an Australian breakfast show host once renewed her wedding vows here so it just shows it’s nice! Cape Tribulation is about 90 mins from Port Douglas, on the other side of the Daintree River. We stopped this side of the crossing and...