Day 2 - Kuranda

Second day of our vacation in Cairns we took our rental car for a drive to Kuranda where you can ride on the skyrail that goes overtop of the canopy of the rainforest. This was a super touristy area with a little market area that sold all sorts of tourist souvenirs and other tourist attractions like the bug zoo, butterfly world, bird and koala land etc etc. We got suckered into the tourist things and took the skyrail from the top (Kuranda) down to this little town north of Cairns. There are 2 stops on the way down where we thought you could get out and hike through the rainforest. Well it turned out these so called 'hikes' were 500m boardwalks with lookout points, super lame.

Here we are at the beginning of our journey before boarding the skyrail.

The first pit stop, Barron Falls, at one of the three look out points.

Another look out point, not much of a waterfall, doesn't look like the postcard pictures that's for sure.

View from inside the skyrail looking down at the little town north of Cairns out to the ocean.

On our way back up in the skyrail, trying to pass some time by taking photos. Todd was trying to get a 'nice' photos of the two of us while we were bored to death stuck in this thing, so I decided to make some weird faces. Contrary to what some of you might comment, I don't always look like that, only when I'm stuck in a small gondola hanging over the rainforest with Todd and no way to escape him.

After our wonderful skyrail journey, we decided to go for a 'hike' along the paved trails going through the rainforest or the so called "Kuranda backroads". Todd and I both had leeches fall from the middle of no where onto our feet, luckily I was wearing running shoes and didn't get any blood sucked out of me. Todd on the other hand, wearing his thongs, had a bit of blood drawn from his big toe... poor leech, didn't know what it was in for when it decided to hang onto Todd's toe.

Wild turkey