Wednesday 30th May 2012 - Brampton Beach

The weather started to worsen and it rained all day. Bummer!!
We had planned to drive inland to see the Undara Lava Tubes and the Chillagoe Caves however you can only do the lava tubes on a tour and the one we wanted was not available until Sunday so we decided to continue on up the coast and we will do them on the way back down after Cape York.We had a slow start to the day and it continued to rain.

We stopped on our way towards Cairns at Wallaman Falls in the Girringun National Park. The falls are the longest single drop falls in Australia. The view from the platform was quite spectacular!

Wallaman Falls - 268m

The kids and I at the waterfall

The view at the top of Wallaman Falls

We then drove through to Tully and it continued to rain (not unusual for Tully which has the highest rainfall in Australia apparently).

We drove out towards Mission Beach. We are keen to spot a Cassowary in the wild so as there are lots of areas around Mission Beach which are conservation areas for them. Unfortunately we didn't see one. I don't think that the continued rain helped our cause! We did stop and do a pretty little walk at the 'Lakes' near Mission Beach as part of our hunt. We also had lunch there in a beak from the rain.

Ed and the kids being silly on the boardwalk.

I love the shapes of the rainforest vines. Checkout this one that Charlotte is holding.

We drove up as far as Brampton Beach where we camped for the night.
Ed managed to go for a quick fish - no result of course because of the very bad weather.
We had a very wet night!