Friday, August 29, 2014

Airlie Beach to Cairns

Queensland, the Florida of Australia.  Carlos and I rented a car for the drive to Cairns and for our time in northern Queensland.

The drive between Airlie Beach and Cairns is 8 hours so our late afternoon lunch stop was at the Paradise Waterhole in the Paluma Range National Park.

Another picture of me swimming!


Just up the road, we hiked up to Jourama Falls

In the late afternoon light, the dark pools of water really stood in contrast to the rocks.


Our AirBnB choice was in Cairns was a complete bonus.  We were in a beautiful house, minutes from the beach and our host cooked us dinner twice! 

Our host Sen (on the right) is a Sri Lankan who's father was the ambassador to Australia.  He came here and never left.  Sen's friend Iphegenie (second from left) is a Parisian just traveling the world.  The other two guests were Brits staying at the house as well.  It truly was a home for four days!

Lounging around the back porch.  The couch was MINE!

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