We had a good and long night of sleep, exhausted after yesterday’s adventures. As we were taking our time also for breakfast, we started planning the day… and realised we had to rush to the bus! We caught it, and drove to Kuranda, about an hour from Cairns. It’s located in the rainforest, and was highly recommended day-trip when staying at Cairns.

We arrived there late morning, had a coffee at a nice coffee shop in town and went for a hike in the rainforest. We had lunch along the Barron river, and did a bit of souvenir shopping when back in Kuranda.

For the way back, we took the skyrail for a beautiful journey just above the canopy of the rainforest. We stopped at the lookout to Barron Falls, and got a nice ranger guided tour at the next stop, Red Peak. We learnt about sting-trees, the giant Queensland Kauri tree, the back-burning process (prevention of forest fire, among other benefits), and the epiphytes like the basket fern that had puzzled us earlier.

For the last part of the cableway trip, we got the view on the ocean – and what a spectacular view! The skyrail took us down to Smithfield… conveniently located just next to the wake-park. Tim had a go at it, tried wakeboarding this time (successfully). The other went back to Cairns for further souvenir shopping.

We all met at the night market downtown Cairns, bought takeaway food, and had dinner home.