Hello to All,

Townsville our next stop, we stayed at the show grounds just out of town. Spent some time looking around Townsville, it is Australia's largest tropical city and has been recognized as a centre for marine research. With the Great Barrier Reef at its door step. It caters for the tourism with a lot of Café and restaurants along the foreshore. And its a great spot for water sports with jet skiing, water skiing, white water rafting many other water adventures.. We attend the night market on the foreshore it was a great night. good weather and a lot of happy people. Townsville is also the place that Bob fulled the car with petrol instead of diesel, we had it drained out the next day with no damaged except for the pocket with a huge fuel bill.
We travelled up the coast calling into many of the beautiful beaches, walking the gorges and seeing many waterfalls. In Cairns we took the Kuranda Scenic train up to Kuranda and spent a day wandering around looking at he craft & art shop. We came back on the sky rail. A bit scary as it was raining and we couldn't even see the cable so it was like we were hanging in limbo.
Port Douglas we had breakfast with the birds at Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary this was really good but certainly don't leave your food unattended or it would be gone.
Wonga Beach a campsite right on the beach we intended staying for 4 days but eight weeks later we headed off. We really had a great time here and were able to attend the markets in Mossman under the rain trees. Wonga was also a spot where we could travel out to see different places, like the Daintree Nation Park

 We several days traveling to the daintree as there was a lot to see and plenty of walks. This huge bird is the cassowary, and we saw lots of these as we moved north of Queensland.  Even the beaches where good but I wouldn't swim at them.

At Wonga beach a lot of the visitors would go out fishing and any left over we would have a fish and chip night. We would take our plate, knife & fork and have a great social evening. Some one would site poetry, sing tell jokes, but we all enjoyed it. In  Mossman we went to the Mossman gorge which was a good walk in to see a beautiful waterfall and even better when it had been raining. The Bloomfield track was a trip we did and took 4 days to do. So will write about that next time. Bye for now.