As nice as Ellis beach was, the main road ran right past the site so the night was quite disturbed - it's so hot at the mo we are sleeping with the back doors open! We had booked to go to Karunda today (yes, that's right, the touristy village we passed yesterday!) Well this is one of the 'must dos' in the area and Rob has always wanted to do the trip. Basically you go up the mountain on a train originally built by hand (including many tunnels) for the gold rush in the late 19th century and then come back down on the longest cable car in the world over the rain forest. The train has one stop on the way to see Barron Falls - not that much water and the cable car has two stops on the way down to look over the gorge and walk in the rainforest on raised broadwalks as well as a stop to change to the second cable. The trip was thoroughly worthwhile and very enjoyable.
As the site on the beach had been so noisy we decided not to return there even though we had paid for a second night so we went to Palm Cove a beach / resort nearer Cairns - it was originally used by the USA to train Australian troops in WW2 when it was called Palm Beach! Now it's a very nice small resort and the camp site allowed us to walk to the shops, restaurants and beach!
Not for the vertigo challenged !
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