Thanks everyone for your phone calls, emails and texts for Tori's birthday, she really appreciated it and can't wait to get home and see everyone again.
Today was Tori's birthday so the whole van was awake early!! She opened all her pressies and was very excited to get money from her family as as she is broke, and was looking forward to spending some money at Kuranda. We had a special breaky of crepes, waffles and fruit salad before heading off to the Skyrail. Tori was so excited, Shannae on the other hand, not so!!! She's not big on heights!!
The trip up to Kuranda was pretty awesome, these fairly small Gondolas towering high above the rainforests that take you up over the hills. It stopped at two stations on the way so you could get out and have a look which was great, an opportunity to look at waterfalls and a fantastic interactive information centre to look out which we couldn't drag our little scientist son away from !!! You can see the gondolas in the background of this photo. We were up pretty high!!
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| Sitting in the gondola. |
Finally, at Kuranda, and we walk through the quaint little village towards Birdworld. Kuranda is "market heaven", you could spend a couple of days up here just wading through all the local shops. We get to Birdworld and have to remove hats, jewellery and anything else that sparkles, as the birds like to pinch these things!! Birdlworld is just great and we spend quite a while here.
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| Glen made a friend with this guy, he couldn't get rid of him!!! |
After this we head to the local Kuranda Hotel for a special birthday lunch for Tori. Very nice, we just love being up here in this rainforest country and it is nice to go out for a nice meal.
We spend the rest of afternoon exploring Kuranda which is great and we contemplate bringing the van up and staying for a couple of days, however, after the bus trip home, we quickly reassess the idea. 15 km of winding, twisting road at a rapid rate of knots!!!!, had we gone another couple of km's I think the Kuranda Hotel consumptions could have landed on the bus floor!!!!
We make a couple of purchases at the skyrail shop before heading home for a nice dinner and birthday cake. It has been a great day and I think the birthday girl has enjoyed herself.
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