Pivate beach and Kuranda 23rd July 2007

We drove from Port Douglas a little way and found a stretch of empty beach. We decided to get some colour and parked the car. The beach stretched for miles and with the sun shining, it was perfect. The girls sunbathed and I went for a walk. The girls got smaller and smaller as I walked. I found some cliffs and caves on the beach. Got some shells and walked back to the girls. Later on I found out they had been a bit worried at one point because they couldn't see me and I 'd been gone ages. As I got to the spot where they were sunbathing the weather changed in a split of a second and rain hammered down, sand blew into our faces and stuck to us everywhere. We ran to the car and when we reached it, the rain stopped and the sun came back out (that's the tropics for you).
We drove up to Kuranda in search of pie (guide book says this is the best place in Queensland for pies). We arrived late in the afternoon and ran to the pie shop because we were starving. We had a look around the shops, they were like market stalls with loads of different stuff. Then we drove a little further along through a small rain forest and walked along to a lookout of Barron Gorge. The view was amazing the river was crashing down to the bottom, it was a real wow factor thing. We watched as the train came in and saw millions of Japanese run off with the cameras to get the photo of the gorge before the train left with them again. As this happened it started to rain again, so we moved back to the car. The crack in the windscreen had grown some more, it was about 15cm long. No need to worry we have a plan. Drove back to Cairns and ended up staying in the same backpackers as before.