July 1, 2010

Day 5 of our trip and we’re off the Cairns! Along our way up we made a lot of little 20 minute stops in little towns. Our first stop was Ingham. We were only there for a few minutes to get coffee and go to the bathroom. We kept traveling until we got to the Mena Creek Pub. We had lunch here and I got this really good steak. There were signs all over the pub saying “Best Little Pub in the Country” There was a suspension bridge here that could only hold 4 people on it at a time, which hung over a beautiful waterfall. After lunch we went to Ety Bay where we saw rare, endangered birds called Cassawarys. Aparently they are extremely dangerous and will attack you, but of course the whole New York crew ran up close to them to get good pictures. These birds are huge and have this hard fin looking thing on the top of their heads! After Etty Bay we traveled to Josephine Falls which was really nice. I got a lot of great pictures! There were a few different trails that we climbed to get different views of the falls. After the falls we got back on the bus and traveled a few more hours to the Capypso Inn Backpackers in Cairns where we would be spending the next 5 nights. Alissa and I got to share a room to ourselves which was awesome since we had just come from sharing 8 to a room. We were all put together on the same floor so it was like our own little apartment. The showers finally had hot water and good water pressure but we all had to share only 2 showers! Calypso was a definite upgrade from the backpackers we stayed in at Magnetic Island.