Blogs from Danbulla Forest, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Yep we reached the coast again. Spent a few moments in Cairns, up to Kuranda cause Goff likes trains, then onto Daintree, Crocodiles and finally Cooktown. And there you have it . The 3 C's Ah yep in between we also looked at Port Douglas. Goff went sunset sailing and we watched a movie under the stars. Most impressive of course it was to finally get to Cooktown. Amazing. Did the Bloomfield track or more to the point the Bloomfield track did us. Anyhow just a minor hiccup in a ditch. Had to happen sooner or later. Now we are near Atherton Tablelands. Staying in a magnificent NP Lake to the right , lake to the left. Finally finally nothing to worry about in the water. Anywhere up north the ocean is deprived of human activity ... read more

July 26, 2011 Sitting in the hostel office last night talking to John and Kerry about I should do today, we decided what I needed was a day with Uncle Brian. I needed a break from the reef . Uncle Brian is a little strange but loads of fun. I can't wait to meet the family. Uncle Brian is a tour of the rainforest, the Atherton tablelands and swimming like no other tour around. They promise fun, food and waterfalls with little to no effort. SIGN ME UP! At 8:00 AM Cousin Brad picks me up in Gus the Bus and 20 other cousins for the day. It's a family bus so we are all family for the next 12 hours. Our family heads south out of Cairns and travel through the small village of Babinda ... read more

DAY 343 Today is our last morning at the gorgeous Lake Tineroo, the campsite is actually called Fong-On Bay, we have come to love it here. Caroline was up before me which is usually unheard of, but with the promise of a cup of tea, I got my lazy back side out of bed. For the next couple of hours all we had to do was pack up, as we needed to be back in Cairns by no later than 3.00pm to see Julie before she heads off for the weekend. It seems surreal, we have been up to what is classed as the “last frontier” of Australia, Cape York, for a mini adventure which we started from Julies house just over 2 weeks ago and now the circle will close for this part of the ... read more

DAY 292 Awaking to the beautiful Fong - On Bay again, not at all damp this morning, the night was warmer, cloudy but no fog, so for a change everything was dry, just as well as I had forgotten to fold the chairs away last night, they were still by the fire. There was no huge dawn chorus this morning, all that noise seemed to be in the distance. Andy got out of bed to make the tea and I soon followed. I could see that the pigeons that disturbed us yesterday morning were now disturbing Ian and Jean, they were all tap dancing on the top of their caravan and when they finished with that they went and tap danced on their Landcruiser. It was a lovely cool morning, still cloudy and somewhat refreshing, ... read more