The Big Coconut Stop

We have arrived at the Cairns Coconut Holiday Resort chosen especially by Lilah with it’s pools and waterpark, they call themselves the 1# caravan park in Australia. It was true the caravan park was huge and had two massive pools, two days of which we swam in the pool the whole day.

On the first of our six days we went out to Fitzroy Island, the last of our visits to the Great Barrier Reef. It was awesome because we got to swim with two turtles. We also did some stand up paddle boarding and we paddled out to a water trampoline and jumped off it. The beach was made out of coral and was beautiful until you had to take your thongs off and actually walk on it. Ouch! All together it was another great reef experience.

We also went to the Lagoon on the Cairns Esplanade which was beautiful and had a clean feel to it with nice tourquoise water.

We visited another place mum had gone to as a child, Crystal Cascades. As with Mossman Gorge it was very different. We walked to the end of the foot path, watched the waterfall cascade down then headed to a delicious Italian lunch at Trinity Beach, overlooking the water. It was so good we went back for dinner the night before we left.

Our time in Cairns was mostly spent swimming and re-visiting Mum’s favourite childhood places. Now we have to head back toward Canberra. We have chosen to travel along the Great Inland Way for a change of scenery and to experience the Outback