June 24th, 2019
This was our last day in Cairns. Tomorrow we return our rental car and fly to Darwin, a city in Australia’s Northern Territory. We wanted a day to rest and ended up doing a self-guided drive and tour through some of the Daintree Rainforest just outside of Cairns. We went to a World Heritage Site where the Wet Tropics of Queensland is recognized and protected as a living record of the evolution of plant life on earth. We went to the Barron Falls Lookout which was very pretty.
We then went out to Granite Gorge which was a really cool park of mostly huge boulders and slabs of granite. They had wild Rock Wallabies there (they look like baby kangaroos). This is the only place you can feed them in the wild, and they are used to getting food from humans. They crawled all over us looking for food and were super cute.
We did a little hike through the boulder landscape. It was pretty cool, but we set out without water or really being prepared to be in the hot sun, and we had to turn back after about an hour to get water.
We stopped in a couple little towns and explored their markets on the way back to Cairns. We got ready for our last night of car sleeping and packed to get ready to fly tomorrow.
Those little wallaby’s are very cute indeed!! They could teach the aggressive chipmunks on Mt Rainier a thing or two about manners!