Monday 18th June - Drove through to Cairns today through some very windy and steep roads. I was as usual a bit on edge but Graham did very well coming down the hills. We arrived in Cairns mid morning and we are staying on the Crystal Cascades Caravan Park which is very nice and surrounded by mountains and rain forest.
Tuesday 19th June - Had to be up early this morning to take the caravan to Cairns Jayco to have a couple of things fixed. We had a small water leak on the outside at the back of the caravan and one of the hinges in the cupboard had ceased. They fixed everything for us without us having to unhook the van so that was a bonus. We brought the van back to the park and then we had to get someone out to fix the computer. It was making an awful noise (a deafening screech) and I wasn't sure what it could be. It turned out that when I updated SKYPE on Sunday it had automatically put the microphone on full and it was giving us feedback. I have never heard anything like it but at least it was an easy problem to fix. After all this we decided to go to Palm Cove and see if we could book on the caravan park there for when we come back from Cook Town. The powered sites there are booked out until September but the unpowered sites are given out on a first come best dressed basis. We will have to ring the day we leave Cook Town to see if we can get a site. Otherwise we will spend some more time here in Cairns.
Wednesday 20th June - We visited Crystal Cascades which is only about 5 km from the caravan park. It is a very pretty area with lots of little water falls. We then thought we would go to Copperlode Dam which apparently at the top gives a panoramic view of Cairns. Well we got about half way up and then the road was closed. Apparently they are doing some roadworks and it may be opened tomorrow. Where we were stopped was quite high and we did get a good view over Cairns. We had morning tea sitting looking over Lake Placid and then went to Barron Gorge. There is a hydro electric power station at Barron Gorge, apparently one of the most visited power stations in Queensland. In the visitors centre we watched a video which showed the floods in 2000, it was amazing to see how high the water was in comparison to how low it was today.
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| Crystal Cascades |
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| Lake Placid |
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| Waterfall Barron Gorge |
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| View over Cairns |
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