Normal wake up time, with the patient’s only sign of injury being her multi coloured eyelid(s), some bruising appears to have spread to the other eye.
We had an outdoor breakfast today.
I was expecting a quiet lazy day to day, but it didn’t turn out that way, it was one of our more physically demanding days!
We headed north along the Bruce and then took a detour off towards the coast and Mission Beach. Another MGB type road got us to Mission Beach, we carried on a few more miles to Wongaling Beach. This a unique area in that the rain forest comes right down to the ocean.
From here carried on North towards the Mamu Elevated Forest Walkway (possibly stopping for a cream pastry on the way!)
The walkway was name for the Mamu tribe of indigenous people, and is one of many World Heritage sites in the area. The walkway was constructed without the need to demolish any trees, Cyclone Larry did that back in 2004! The keepers of the site used the path of destruction to good advantage in building the walkway. At one point of the walk there is a cantilever section that goes, unsupported, out 150ft over the gorge! It’s getting late and I’m getting tired so here come the pictures.
We may have come out of mango territory, but the sugar cane continues on, the mangoes have been replaced by bananas.
The coloured bags you can see on the trees are covering the banana pods, each pod has between 100-150 bananas and weighs 40kg, those of you south of the 49th can do your own conversion this time! The bags are put on the pods when they first form, and are colour coded according to date. This aids in harvesting the fruit as the pickers know what colour bags to pick.
After a very late lunch we headed to Cairns, passing Walsh’s pyramid on the way.
In Cairns we stopped at the local tourist information office and gave our credit card a good workout by booking a train and sky rail trip tomorrow and a snorkeling and scuba trip to the Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday.