Amy and the Koala

Amy and the Koala

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Kuranda rainforest

Today was a great day – up bright and early for a trip to the Kuranda Rainforest! As our current campsite is a bit out of Cairns (but well worth it, great campsite) we were te first to be picked up by the tour bus at 8.10. The bus dropped us off at the train station where we would board for a 2 hour scenic journey high into the rainforest. Built over a 100 years ago, it was an amazing feat of engineering as well as being a beautiful journey – there were 15 tunnels (one just under 500m long) that were all dug by hand! Trusty Attenborough has his camera as ever so lots of pics to bore you with later! Kuranda is a kind of rainforest market town, with lots of quaint shops and restaurants. The days highlights was a visit to a Koala park where I cuddles a Koala – it was definitely the cutest thing ever and I wanted to take it home. After a bit of shopping (don’t dread your gifts, we hopefully ignored the rubbish and found the nice things!) and some lunch it was time to descend the mountain again – this time via cable car! Called the skyrail, it was an amazing view of the rainforest above the canopy. Back to the campsite and a quick game of crazy golf (for the record, I won, sorry Mckinley) and then just some packing up of dear Nessy, dinner, and preparing for the last night in the van 😦 She has been lovely but I shall be pleased for some aircon and a bit of trashy tv. X

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