On our way from Townsville to Cairns we stoped at a Bilyana rest area where I managed to photgraph a Cassawary, the first I have seen in real life. We then travelled to Tully here they have the Gold Gumboot festival and "have the highest rainfall in Australia" (several other places up here make the same claim), the gumboot shows the height of the annual rain fall if it all came at once. We then travelled to Babinda and stayed for 4 days in a great free camp, 60K south of Cairns, thats where we saw the Babinda pebbles, boulders in the creek. Cairns is a large city and we needed the GPS to find the Cool waters C/P, the first we have stayed in since Alice Springs. Went up to Karanda and saw some beautiful water falls.
Have thoroughly enjoyed or catch up with Pauline & Mick, and Nifty and Michelle, last night Nifty asked if we knew the Mullocks from Penrith, we then proceed to exchange a few stories of Ron and Mark, Nifty had a few very funny stories to tell.

Were off to Port Douglas to day, will keep you posted.