Cairns: Day Twenty-Seven - Afternoon (15 November)

We caught the sky rail back to Cairns. It goes right over the rainforest and we stopped and had a ranger walk on the way. The ranger showed us some of the rainforest food that people can survive on, including a witchity grub, which is a bit like a fat white worm. I decided my ice cream was enough to keep me going until we had fish and chips for dinner at Miss Berry’s.

Barnaby

Cairns: Day Twenty-Four (12 November)

We had a lie in after all our early mornings in Kakadu. It was lovely to be in a home not a hotel and Miss Berry looked after us really well. Her house is some way from the centre of Cairns so we took a bus in and sent emails from an internet café (which arrived this time – hurrah).

We also had a yummy chocolate milkshake before heading back to Miss Berry’s and saving all the photos we’d taken since the start of our trip in South Africa.

Barnaby

Cairns: Day Twenty-Three (11 November)

Remembrance Day and because it is a short flight from Darwin to Cairns we were able to go to a service at 11am. Afterwards Miss Berry drove us to Port Douglas to see the beautiful four mile beach and walk around the markets.

We had lunch on the seafront and then drove backs to Cairns for a family BBQ at Miss Berry’s, which was lots of fun.

Cairns is in the tropics and is on the edge of the rainforest and it did (rain) just as the BBQ was starting so we all had to move inside. The food was more like an English BBQ too:-).

Barnaby

Darwin: Day Twenty-Two (10 November)

Our last day in the Northern Territory! We visited a local war memorial and went swimming in three different croc-free places - Florence Falls, Buley Rockholes and Wangi Falls – and enjoyed a nice walk along Shady Creek which lived up to its name: hurrah. (As my profile says, I love sunbathing but 46 degrees Celcius is a bit too warm for someone as furry as me, especially when it’s humid too).

Our final stop was at the Banyan Tree before we began the long drive back to Darwin, showers without cane toads and air conditioning. Heaven!

We went out for pizza with some of the people from our trip and then went to bed as we flew to Cairns in the morning to visit Miss Berry, who used to teach at Claremont.


Barnaby