As Adam and I were getting onto the bus I heard someone say hello to me - turns out my cousin's wife Linda is on the cruise with some friends. Unexpectedly running into cousins on cruises is starting to become a habit!
First stop for Adam and I was the Skyrail up to Kuranda - we got some really nice views of the rainforest and also back towards Cairns.
The Skyrail ends in Kuranda and we had about an hour to spend there.
The excursion we were originally booked on went into the Butterfly Sanctuary but they cancelled it due to insufficient bookings. However, the drop-off and meeting place in Kuranda was right outside the sanctuary, so we went there anyway. We arrived just at the start of one of their guided tours - it was all very interesting.
Then we wandered through the Heritage Markets and decided to eat at a restaurant called Frogs and found ourselves at a table beside most of the rest of the family - they were doing a quite similar tour to ours but organised themselves rather than through the cruiseline.
After lunch - which was delicious - we all ended up on the Scenic Railway back to Cairns. Seats on the train are allocated and we ended up randomly sitting opposite Linda which was really nice. The train ride was interesting but really not all that scenic - in most places all you can see is rock face on one side and trees on the other. However they did stop at one look-out point:
and there was also occasional interesting commentary about the building of the railway line.
Once we got back to Cairns Adam went out for dinner to a restaurant at the night markets, but Paul and I stayed in.
No comments:
Post a Comment