Last days in Australia: Cairns and Atherton Tablelands

From Mission Beach we start in tropical rain and we arrive in Cairns in tropical rain. Very friendly welcomed by Marlies and Bruno, with a nice Swiss accent (because they immigrated from Switzerland more than 20 years a go), we quickly feel at home in our room, with a scenic view over Cairns from our veranda (in case the weather allows views, see the difference between rainy and sunny weather).

Because of the rain we stay in our B and B almost the whole next day. We only go for a short walk to the waterfront.

This is the lagoon.

As it is Anzac Day there are a lot of people with uniforms in town. Anzac Day is a very popular day in OZ and Nz, as it reminds us on the many wars soldiers from OZ and NZ participated in.

We did not know how topical the times of war are in this part of the world. There are a lot of War Memorials in almost every single town here and we saw many children's books illustrating this particular topic.

The next day the weather is a little bit better and we go on a tour to the Atherton Tablelands.

Unfortunately there has been a mudslide in the mountains so that we can't take the famous train and skywalk. We must go by car. But it is worth it. The tablelands are about 800 to 1000 m above sea level and there are a lot of tiny villages, farms, little lakes and spots to explore.

The fist stop is in Kuranda where we have German Tucker Bratwurst.