Day 30 - Up, Up and Away

The train

Also the train

Not much to say about today. We booked a tour of the rainforest, going up to the top, a town called Kuranda, in an old fashioned train, open windows and all. Pretty ride, beautiful rainforest, but nothing at all interesting or different from other forests, rain or otherwise. No birds, just green. Best part of the journey was an 8 month old little tow headed boy and his parents, spent more time photographing him than the scenery.

Got up to the top, went into town. Our first real tourist town of the journey, shop after shop, after restaurant, after food place.

AFW

Had lunch and went back down via a gondola over them tops of the tress into little valleys, stoping twice to get off and see the waterfall and a gorge. There was 2 1/2 hours in between the drop off of at the train and the pick up of the gondola; we were hard pressed to use up that time ( we didn't). However, just before the gondola set down at the last stop, an eagle flew past the window and soared around us for a minute or two. We did get some shots of it, gorgeous bird.

Eagle from the Gondola (Photo by Patricia)

We still had 1 1/2 hours before we met the bus back to the hotel. Didn't have our reading material, didn't have our cards, and the gondola stops did not take a lot of time, so we sat in the cafe and read the guide books on the shelf. Are you excited so far?

We returned to our hotel, cancelled the day trip for the next day, another rainforest trip (the famous one of the region, but not for us).

Took a walk into town, had a lovely Italian dinner, repacked our suitcases for the nth time and watched TV. We will see what tomorrow has in store for us. The Sunday market in town, a ferry ride across the bay, sitting on the beach or at the pool. Stay tuned.