Kuranda

We're in Cairns now, for a total of almost two weeks. I found a 30% off deal on one of the caravan parks a few weeks ago, which made it economical to stay here while Dazz has work, and also allowed us to (try to!) pick good days for the couple of touristy things we wanted to do. In spite of the forecast for fine weather, the day we picked to go to Kuranda wasn't exactly blue skies... We still had an enjoyable day, though.

Kuranda Scenic Railway

Stoney Creek Bridge and Falls

Barron Falls

Kuranda Weir

Kuranda Station - The station quickly emptied of people as they raced into the village to see and do things, so we had a quiet picnic lunch looking at this view.

Reminiscent of our plants outside the container house!

Australian Butterfly Sanctuary

After chasing a few butterflies on some of our walks, Dazz decided he would like to go to the Butterfly Sanctuary while were were in Kuranda. Unfortunately they don't have any Ulysses butterflies (apparently they are difficult to breed in captivity, and as they are protected they can't take them from the wild), but we had fun, and a good challenge, capturing these images. 

Lurcher

Cairns Birdwing (male & female)

Cruiser Butterfly (male)

Red Lacewing

Grass Yellow

Blue-banded Eggfly (male & female)

Orchard Swallowtail (male & female)

Common Eggfly (female) - No, this is not AI generated! Dazz happened to snap it just as I was moving my phone after videoing the butterflies on my arm.

Skyrail

Our trip home on the Skyrail started off fine.

The Barron River

The Barron Falls Station

Soaring over the canopy

Red Peak Station - By now it was raining quite heavily and we made use of their umbrellas to walk around the boardwalk. We love kauri pines... if the ones on our place ever get to this size they'll cause some problems for the shed!

We didn't think we were going to see much coming back down to Cairns.

We came out of the clouds, though, in time to get a bit of a view.

Josephine Falls and the Babinda Cascades

It was mostly overcast and wet for our trip up to Cairns, but we had time to wait for the showers to pass to do the couple of short walks. They were both very pretty.

Josephine Falls

The walk through the forest was beautiful and the water was crystal clear.

There were three different viewing areas and we started at the bottom.

Dazz had just finished telling me that there were no mushrooms or fungus anywhere when he spotted these.

Babinda Cascades

There were more fungii at The Cascades!