On day 6, I was enjoying the run along the waterfront at Cairns, it's nice with wooden decking, with lots of water fountains, and great views, and then I saw this:
What! Can you imagine if that was in England? There would be a 6 foot fence up, and laws in place, and no one would be allowed within 50 feet. Not just a sign. But this is what I'm learning about Australia. There are so many deadly creatures potentially everywhere that if there were fences for all of them, you wouldn't be able to move.
And with that in mind, the pace picked up.
Day 7 was just a quick early morning run, more around the streets to the Convention Centre (which is massive), but finishing up on the front again (still no crocs, which is good, as it's before coffee, so reaction times are slowed):
After the run, we picked up a hire car and set off on an adventure. We headed first for Mena Creek, and visited the beautiful Paronella Park:
It's so magical. You must go if you are over here!
Yesterday we drove up to Yungaburra, a small town built in the 1880s, which has been kept quite similar to how it was then. It's also a good place for platypus spotting, and we saw some on our run along the river!
They are so diddy! And very shy. Quite hard to spot. They live in a beautiful place.
Afterwards, we took a trip to the Curtain Fig National Park to see the giant Curtain Fig Tree at dusk. The most amazing tree!
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