Cairns and beyond By Tina

Up early and straight into the final items that need to be squeezed into the TOJO, ahhh but how we have come along, we have heaps of room, I hope we have everything! Out of Innisfail then through a number of small towns, sugar cane field & Banana plantations to a place called Babinda which rivals every year with Tully for the highest rainfall. We are going to stop in there on the way back & have a look around. We went through Cairns witch we noted have much larger roads than Adelaide! Not much to say about Cairns this time round maybe on the way back we might have more to add.

Not long after Cairns we were driving along the coast road, this is one of the memories I have from a kid when we came here, it was sooooo beautiful. The road was not quite as high as I remember though.

We stopped at Mossman for a beer and lunch, then onto the Daintree river $11.00 to cross did not see any snapping lizards! After a beautiful drive through the Daintree which is all now bitumen we stopped at Noah’s Beach to camp but soon found out you have book before you camp and guess what all booked out! well what now? So we drove up to Cape Tribulation hoping for some sort of free camp by a river or something but all that we could find was fancy smancy units or resorts and lucky for us a private camping area, and my it was nice bit pricey but we were expecting this. The camp was only about 50mtrs to the beach through a nice rainforest walk, rainforest meets the beach. Again another childhood memory relived.