Port Douglas to Townsville.

Arriving at Glengarry park after traversing the Rex Range.

A short drive to Port Douglas and a quick tour around marina and town, see there is a market tomorrow we will return.

Market day and lots of clothing very little produce but jewellery and trinkets all the go. Bought a a shirt for Tassie weather.

A day in Cairns to catch up with Tim & Sue and check out the area. Beautiful beaches along the way and plenty of time to look as road works along the way and waiting for the green light.

We now on our way south and call into beaches along the way.

We take another road through Cairns and come across the boat stranded for quite some time !!

Along the way we see a fruit market where we have to stop so Cameron can continue to try all these different varieties of fruit.

We decide to stay in Babinda for a few nights at the Rotary Park. Hot showers and toilets, so all set. Had a couple of days of rain so not much use moving on, but there seems to be plenty of sight to see.

We now are chasing cane trains, and as this is height of the season there are plenty around.

We travel around Babinda and we first visit Golden Hole a beautiful water course which you cannot swim in.

As we move onto the Boulders you can see the dark ominous clouds, no sun but still the boulders are beautiful to see.

Staying at Cardwell for a couple of days. What a pretty spot.

Passing through small towns and the amazing murals you come across like Halifax. Of course the mandatory hotel but loves the butchers and the chemist was different as being in black & white.

Taylors beach another little town but the water lilies we had to do a u-turn to get the photo it was beside a little bridge.

Wherever we go we seem to find the cane trains! And photos have to be taken because we may never see them again!!!!

A stop along the way for Margaret as mango is her favourite fruit and an ice cream has to be had as it is not mango season and that seems the only way we can taste it. Delicious!

A tour of Ayr and then decide to stay the night. More murals one for the dance studio stood out. Quite impressive. The statues of birds was out front of the council offices with water fountains. Local stone was setup a bit like the stone henge but obviously a lot smaller.

We now are seeing a cane fire which we thought didn’t happen any more but as we go south we are finding there seems to be more.

Quite impressive monument in the middle of Ayr denoting the area. Burdekin bridge is quite impressive with all its steel structures over the Burdekin River.

Travelling along we see a World War 2 site and decide to detour and see what it is about a little rough up hill track we find these igloos. Charlies Hill. They were constructed in 1943 for radar station with wooden towers constructed for the aerials but only the concrete bases are left. One of the igloos has been used recently for storage of feed for cattle. Very thick walls and impressive structures.

Toured the island in a green bus then a blue bus to see plenty of island beautiful views. Can’t get over how many islands out in the passage.

A lovely day ferry ride to Daydream island the Hamilton Island.

Lunch at the Marina Tavern where the raven made a mess if anybody left any scraps on their table.

A story about the planes taking off Margaret checked out the timetable for departing aircraft’s and the waited 10 minutes past the departure time and just turned her back and the plane took off. Not happy at all after waiting 1/2 for the shot and then missed it…..

Home Hill was a very interesting little town info centre a wealth of information and very happy to impart their pride in their town. We went for a walk and Cameron went missing, hard to believe I know, but looked around and there is an Army Surplus store and yes in the bowels of the shop Cameron in his element but thankfully in the caravan so no room for any more junk!!

The info centre in Home Hill had more information on the Burdekin Bridge. Very interesting!