FRIDAY 13TH. We've had a busy couple of days seeing the sights around Cairns, including the emergency dept of Cairns hospital because my niece was taken there with chest pain. She's recovering, luckily, but it's meant my sister has now returned to Cairns from Brisbane. More tests next week, we'll know more then.
In the meantime, Ben took us to breakfast at the Wildlife place near Port Douglas, an absolutely amazing place where you walk around on a boardwalk above various birds in their natural habitat, and some of them actually fly above you or perch on the railing in front of you. And a particularly amazing sight, a Jabiru sitting on an enormous nest just a few metres away. And we actually saw a crocodile! Two, in fact- we've never been closer to these animals, but luckily there was a fence between us.
After spending a few hours here, we pressed on to Mossman Gorge, where you now transfer to a shuttle bus for a few kilometres to the gorge itself, which does cut down on the traffic and the parking problems there. A lovely rainforest boardwalk takes you to the most spectacular part of the gorge, where many people were swimming.
Finally we visited Crystal Cascades, right here in Cairns, and it was almost as spectacular. Lovely day altogether until my sister rang with bad news, my niece had been taken to hospital with chest pains- as Colleen was in Brisbane, we went to check on Sarah , who was resting quietly. Colleen flew up first thing this morning and is keeping an eye on things.
More later- tea's ready.
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