Water. Fall. Slide

On Saturday, we got away from On the Wallaby nice and early (well 9am!) and headed for our first stop of the day, Nandroya Falls. We decided to take the long way back to Cairns to fit in some more beauty sites. We had heard that this particular falls was hard to find. It weren't wrong. After an our and a bit driving we pull up around hen creek and tried to follow the signs to the waterfall. Unsurprisingly, it was all a bit misleading and a pain in the ass. So, given that we'd kicked ass on all the following days, we thought, sod it, let's move on.

So on we went and pulled up at the Canopy walkway in the rainforest. We thought it would be a little to get in so we went to have a look: $20 per person... Bugger that. Not after our free, rainforest boardwalk, cassowary lovin' treks! So we were beginning to think that perhaps the short way home might of been a better idea. After a brilliant full on adventure we were feeling tired and maybe even beginning to take the beautiful sites around in the forest for granted. However, we persevered towards Josephine Falls.

Wow. That was a wake up call. It was excellent. Probably one of the best we've been in and swam in. The falls even came with handed natural water fall "slide" (see the videos below).


It was a great atmosphere, with everyone taking turns on the "slide" and enjoying the serene surroundings. I had my prescription goggles on as usual so I could see under water there were loads of timid catfish around. Funny how everything just seems to get along and share, still I wouldn't fancy stepping on one of those boys...

Then it was full steam ahead to Babinda Boulders. Naively, we thought that this would just be a rock or something. To our unthoughtout surprise it was another river but this time with epic, massive boulders in. Very impressive and felt quite special. The local aboriginals have a sinister story about the river about it being haunted by girl who threw herself in after being forbidden to see a boy from another tribe. The legend says she threw herself in the river so hard she created the boulders. Spooooky.

It was around 14:00 and the heat was beginning to make us quite sleepy (which we all know ain't great for driving!) So, further down the road we pulled over in a little hick village called Fishery Falls and had a coffee with all the mad looking locals, who were drinking beer and gambling on the pokies (slot machines). Quite funny really. Ame was probably the first woman in there in 50 years...

Around 16:00 we were back in Cairns and checked into our lovely Tropic Days accommodation. It's the big brother to the Traveller's Oasis we stayed in the other day. Tonight we're going into Cairns to look at the night market, the lagoon and use our free dinner vouchers for the Woolshed that we get from Tropic Days at! This is the cool party place in town which in the week has wet t shirt and jock competitions, however since they're not on tonight (wink) I feel an early night coming on as we're visiting a little thing called the Great Barrier Reef tomorrow!