The last few miles in Oz

We've made it!!!!! We are in Cairns, it was with mixed feelings that we rode into Cairns last Wednesday (23rd). Sad that it was the last part of the 'western' leg of the trip and slightly apprehensive about our next port of call....Bangkok and Indochina.

Innisfail was the last big town before Cairns, we stopped at a campsite by the side of the river which I was assured had no crocodiles, however the locals said they wouldn't swim across 'just in case', great one restless night for me! we woke early to rain which we ignored and when back to sleep, but it kept on coming and as we did not want to spend another night by the river (more to do with noisy neighbours..... 2am they went in to their van but carried on until 3!) we made the oh so wise decision to make a break for it and head off. Luckily we had a fierce tail wind with which we flew along at around 16-17 mph, however it was raining for the majority of the day. As we may have mentioned before we are fair weathered cyclists so upon arriving at the campsite at Fishery Falls we promptly booked into a cabin.

The following day with a late start but the wind still behind us we arrived in Cairns around lunch time, found the campsite, threw up the tent and hightailed it straight to town. The following day having worked out our plan of attack we had a frenzy of bookings and car hire in the morning then I yet again Rich dragged me off to the shops to look at the ipad..... they look lovely. Rich on the other hand had another agenda for luring me into the shop with the ipad. He had decided that actually a small notebook computer was a good idea and that we should buy one! I on the other hand had ipad eyes!! they look so nice and shiny. For the rest of the day we debated the practicalities of it and of course went and bought one!! So we are now the proud owners of a snazzy little white Samsung notebook and bag! hopefully this will mean more blogging....

The highlight of Cairns (aside from the shopping) so far has been our trip to Hartley's Croc farm, I am so glad we did not see any Croc's on the way up as we would have been breakfast, lunch and dinner! On the way to the Farm we saw a sight that we did not think we would see..... a couple on a tandem with the exact same trailer as us, we think it was the same bike, she even had a pale blue top on like I have..... we have twins out there.... we could not stop and chat as we were zooming along in the hirecar and they were on a hill, shame it would have been good to swap stories.

Tomorrow it's off to The Great Barrier Reef.......