Sounds good to me!
So off we go!
Caravan in tow.
Stopping at a couple of overnighters along the way -
Just off the road at Bauple. Actually there are two free place at Bauple - one is right in the village and the other closer to the highway.
A couple of nights in the low-cost camp at Agnes Waters -
Getting stuck in the sand at Carmila Beach, but finding a gorgeous spot next to the water and being helped by lovely fellow campers.
A free camp in the sugar mill town of Giru - next to the railway line with sugar trains rattling through.
Then a few days at Cairns from where we went on a day tour on the reef. It was fabulous.
We went with Seastar cruises.
It was pretty good. They supplied the wetsuits and snorkelling gear. Plus lunch and morning and afternoon tea.
It takes about an hour and a half to get out to the reef and then we visited two reefs. The first one is off a small cay which is home to...um, birds....lots of birds.
The cruise people took these photos of us.
Oh, yes, we saw fish!
We saw lots of brightly coloured parrot fish, you can hear them munching the coral when you snorkel.
The cruise people found us a cute little clown (Nemo) fish, they are a bit tricky as they hide in the coral.
Some people saw turtles. They were lucky.
Angel fish. spotty fish, Stripey fish. Big fish.
All sorts of fish that I can't even remember now.
And coral.
Yeah, it was cool
On the way back to port we saw some whales! How lucky.
Unfortunately we didn't managed to get to the camera in time.
In Cairns we stayed in the Lake Placid caravan park which is a bit squashy but is in a nice location.
Just a few metres up the road is Lake Placid itself which is at the bottom of the Barron gorge and there is a very nice Italian restaurant there.
It was a great place to eat after a long day out on the water.
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