Category archives: Big trip north

The day started with visit to the damn dam wall. That water falling gave me the idea to visit the local water falls. What better way to spend a day than going to waterfalls. Not exactly what the navigator had in mind for an adventure. Millaa Millaa was the first…

“We didn’t spend anywhere near enough time in this place”, something that we keep saying more and more as the trip goes on. We should have given ourselves more time here.

Another one of those local suggestions… who wouldn’t want to see the Worlds biggest Amethyst Geode. There are lots of great items in this collection including the giant geode. If you look very closely you might see what scared the kids.

It has been one Acton packed adventure after another. Train up the mountain, sky rail down, snorkeling on the great barrier reef, ice creams and fishing off the pier in Palm Cove. Very happy campers.  

Our trip to the reef was to Passion Reef which is about 30 km out which took about 2 hours on the Passions of Paradise. The second stop was Michaelmas Cay. The big kids went snorkeling while the little kids went on the glass bottom boat.

Scenic Railway up the hill and Skyrail down. We had a lovely day just sitting back and enjoying the scenery. A few highlights from the photos below are camouflaged butterfly that seems to blend in to its surrounds, a missing plane, the menu off the blackboard is green when on kids hands,…

Warnings aside the boys finally got to swim in the ocean within the stinger nets.          Very nice place and the locals were extremely friendly.

We made it to Cairns and it was only 4145 km. What an adventure it has been so far. From what we’ve seen Cairns is a beautiful place, everything is so lush and green. So much for a dry “wet season”. All hopping bugs are now called Johnno’s, the “feeder”…

A must see and stand out of the trip so far. See the website for more info. We took the regular tour, the night tour and we stayed over night and I took the hydro power station tour, which only a few people have ever done.   A few photos…

Fancy going to all that effort only to repeat it again at the next tide. We’re on the beach for the first time. Unfortunately stingers are every where so you can’t enter the water. Just being here is awesome enough.