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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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around the two stations in
the middle where you must get out to change gondolas). You travel above the
canopy of the rainforest, and get some spectacular views of the area,
including the rainforest itself, the flat sugar-cane fields outside Cairns,
and the waterfalls further up towards Kuranda.
The train is a fun trip too -- it's an older historic train that travels
a perilous route up and down the mountain. For much of the trip, the speed
is 30kph or below, and the train has to stop occasionally to make sure the
tracks ahead are clear of debris or washouts.
One little mishap that happened here was that on the way up to Kuranda, I
noticed that the skylight filter on my camera had shattered. One of the
cashiers at the Skyrail gift shop up in Kuranda helped to break away the
shattered glass (so I could take pictures), but the ring of the filter was
stuck on the lens so tight, no one could take it off. Throughout my trip, I
stopped in at numerous camera stores, hoping someone could pry the ring off
so I could put a new filter on (to protect the lens), but no one had any
success. In the end, the lens itself (a Vivitar 28-210mm lens), started
giving out at the end of the trip, but I was still able to use it with some
adjustments.

For my second day in the Cairns area, I booked a 4WD tour into the
Daintree rainforest and Cape Tribulation area. These are nice, coastal
areas north of Cairns that are accessible only with a 4WD vehicle.
The tour consisted of 5 other people plus our guide, an Aboriginal named
George, who grew up in the Cairns area. We started the day out by taking a
cruise down the Daintree river, seeing mile after mile of mangrove trees
seemingly grow right out of the water. Then, back in the 4WD, we drove
deeper into the rainforest, took some interesting walks, stopped for lunch
at a little resort, ...

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