Day 2

Our friends who had moved up there from Sydney kindly drove us on a big circle around the hinterland of Cairns through lovely old towns full of Queenslanders yeah the people but also the name they give to the lovely old houses built on stumps with big verandas all around and steep corrugated iron roofs, built mostly for coolness and sometimes to protect from floods. We had lunch at a dairy where they made chocolates and cheese. We had the cheese platter but I was a bit cheesed off by the end of it (lucky no one reads this, bad bad joke). The country looked very rich volcanic soil and lots of farming. Then we came down a long pass down the mountains and rainforest  to Cairns. It was a bit drizzly and grey but not too hot. I would like to go back and stay in the hinterland at one of the old hotels and wander around the towns.