the long road! and already breaking our policy hire aggrement everyday, ops

so i think that i was last on the internet in alice! so since then we have had 2nights in cairns and picked up our 'chubby' and not an 'hi-top' as thought. that has been my accommodation but so far we have stayed next to Lake Tinaroo, Mission Beach & Junaroo Falls with tonights destination tbc with around Townsville.

so we hit cairns straight into the reef :D
man i so needed james barnett that day, there were just tons of amazing things and i just wanted to learn all about it! (its ok, that has now passed and am just happy with the beautiful surroundings and scenery). we went snorkeling over it all and brought an underwater camera disposable thing, so will develop the photos sometime.
so after the day of being in the sun, i have had a red back until now when my shoulders are starting to peel, ops, but at least only were annoying at night and didn't hurt!! so have learnt that need to take better care or just care in general of my skin while out in lovely sun that isn't from UK.

the saga of the camper, well, it all started when we were doing the van check of previous damage and it seemed that it looked like a 'chubby' and not the 'hi-top' that i thought i had told the lady (note not the man i had booked everything else with at STA); as it turns out STA had booked me a chubby and not an hi-top and there wasn't one in so we couldn't even take with with an up-grade. so we sent off in search of food :) and we went round in circles ish (more like random direction) in search of the 2 food stores that we had seen and know had food in unlike the store i saw and found out only food it had was fizzy pop and crisps, or chips.
we headed up to port dougless and found out great night life and lots bars but not much for day so headed off and went to the tablelands. ending at lake tinaroo for lovely sunset and cool shaded sleep. sorry no sunset as i had a theological photographic moment and decided that how can you have moments close to your heart when they are all public and its no longer 'special' so i have chosen to keep that sunset to myself; its not that it was crap william :P
also went to an mango winery (was nice wines and spirits but couldnt really afford to buy them, was nice tho!!

so next day off to the rainforest, or wet tropics forest as a sign i saw somewhere which made me laugh so hard! we went over the top as we had been driving through it already so onto the skyrail or gondela as we call them in normal places. down to the beach for lunch with the funnist name ever and back to cairns to the mac and post shops and a visit to food supermarkets too :D
i learnt that putting nothing but address on postcards might not be an good idea as they could go either seamail or airmail so you will have to see and also see if your lucky of not! missed people out! and its so crazy expensive to post things!!!
down to misson beach and hook up with some electric and can re-charge up items. (none mentioned to due to clever theifs, or me not remembering what i actually have with me).

yesterday we have a day of national parks, waterfalls and swimming in the rivers, and of course being bitten by flys and ants :( not so happy. but some very lovely amazing places passed and visited down random country roads. the best road ever is not the one which drives through an banana plantation, was very exciting, matt thinks that im weird with makes me happy and i think are exciting (like sleeping in the rainforest, later that day). and then onto last waterfall of the day where we camped. which was in the middle of an rainforest. we saw wild kangeroo (was hiding and by time took and photo had long jumped away so have picture of grass instead, haha.)
i think that i scared myself by animals last night on a walk by my self, as there were noises and it was getting dark (little girl story i know). anyway was fine until 3 lizard things dropped from the tree around me in different directions stopped and made me see who was boss (maybe me) and then walked, or ran off. that freaked me then i regained my self and decided i should act my age so then walked back rather loudly top the road with lots of vibrations and noise, then back to site.

today i woke and had a bush shower, cold water, but still an shower, then into van and back through the water on roads or fords in sensible places. onto townsville to try to book place on magnetic island for next 2 night but are fully booked so changed plans and went to aquarium called reef HQ, lol. and chill-out day and found internet shop.

so thats really it. there are few more side stories but if i tell it all i would have nothing to talk about!! lol, made my excuses for not remembering it all! yay

oh, about the title we agreed to not go on unsealed roads more that 500m to campsites and picnic spots and been on roads longer that 1.5k each day, ops. but we're driving them nice so its ok

klio