Today we got picked up at our beach apartment and driven to the Freshwater train station to catch the Kuranda Scenic Railway. The train trip up the mountain took a little less than 2 hours and passed some spectacular scenery.
While in Kuranda, we shopped for opals, hiked through the World Heritage listed rainforest, ate crocodile, saw tropical animals and birds and avoided rain at critical moments.
At the end of the afternoon we rode the skyway back to sea level.The skyway passes over the canopy of that rainforest we had hiked in. And goes for several miles. Just amazing to look down into really tall trees wrapped in lawyer cane, and hosting treehouses of ferns and other plants. Pictures don't do it justice.
As the skyway makes its last descent, beautiful views of Cairns and the Coral Sea pan out below. If it isn't raining.
Did I mention that we've had rain every single day we've spent in the Cairns area? They don't call this a rainforest for nothing. And we're enjoying all of it.
Even in rain and looking at it through the lens of your camera, it is spectacular!
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