Cairns

After leaving Lake Tinaroo we called in at Mareeba and had coffee at the hugely advertised "Coffeeworld" - a huge cavern of merchandise - as well as coffee- and crowded- the advertising works.

We booked into the Big 4 in Cairns - Crystal Cascades, a lovely park.

There were several shopping centres to choose from, we went firstly to Raintrees and then to Redlynch, but no a lot of shops were open on the Sunday in them

Port Douglas was only a short drive , so we went there, had a coffee,then drove back via Palm Cove.
Another day we had a picnic at Lake Placid where we saw a huge Goanna, then went along a bit further to Barron Gorge where we saw many youngsters getting into rubber rafts and travelling down the rapids under the guidance of their instructors.

We had dinner in the Camp Kitchen with 2 couples from our Sydney City Slickers caravan Club - we were quite surprised to see them - there must be 9 caravan parks in Cairns, and there was Helen and Colin Death and Bob and Carol Best, just a few caravan sites from each other and one next to Dick and Gloria ( they hadn't met before - so it wasn't until we saw them, that we recognised the coincidence)

                                         Gold Coin Breakfast

                                            Wild Turkey

                                           Barron Gorge

Crystal Cascade Cpark

Next morning we all had breakfast together - the caravan park put on a "gold coin" donation breakfast for all the campers - what a line up for the bacon and eggs !

After breakfast we drove down to the Crystal Cascades and then into town and walked along the beachfront and had lunch at "Muddies" there.