When we were out yesterday we'd booked a trip to the town of Kuranda today - on the Sky Rail, which is a gondola system that takes you high above the canopy of the tropical rainforest. Our bus was picking us up at 9.10am, so we got up at 7.30am to have some breakfast and got ready in plenty of time.
The Sky Rail is 7.5km long and has three stops (the third being Kuranda). We got off at the first two and walked around, taking pictures. We walked through the forest and out to a lookout where we could see the Barron River, Gorge and Falls. We got to Kuranda at about 11.30am and had a nice look around all of the old markets and shops.
This afternoon, instead of coming back on the Sky Rail, we came back on the scenic train, which took us around the edge of the mountains and back into Cairns. It was really pretty looking out of the train window - but some of the rickety bridges were quite hair raising. They looked about 100 years old, and the drops below were over 300 meters!
When we got back to Cairns, we went and did some shopping and the I helped make a huge chili for out tea. It was lush - and a couple of the other travelers commented on how good it looked. We sat and ate as much as we could - which still left loads for another day, and watched Monsters Inc. on the big screen.
Ben helped with tea again did he... what's he after?
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