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You can see the resort.

a slice of the geology.

Beach.

Abandoned settlement. Sad story of wife who escapes raid by putting self, child, and chinese servant into cooking pot and setting off to sea. Died of dehydration.

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Trinity Bay anchorage.

Kuranda Rail station

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Trinity Bay from the train.

Baskets at Kuranda

Koala at Kuranda. They have no ribs and are very squishy in the middle.

Rainforest near Kuranda.

Estuary crocks. Smaller and sleeping.

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Sea Turtle up for air.

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Some kind of tropical flower.

Coconut

Heading up the trail.

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Trinity Bay at sunrise

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Fals. Looks a lot like Lucifer Falls in Treman.

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One of the many venomous spiders in Australia. They are big too.

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Kangaroos.

Koala at the Preserve.

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Entering Lizard Island bay.

Yacht off Lizard Island. We were only permitted to zodiac in, use the trail and the airstrip. Very exclusive resort.

Beach at Lizard Island.

Yep, that's what we were climbing.

Ant nest. Ed and George ate them. supposedly they taste like lime. After Ed and George popped them into their mouths, Cade told them they were only supposed to suck the green part. No one puked.

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The reef from above.

Godwit

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Power station at the falls.

Plane carcass parked at Kuranda.

Cockatoo.

Looks like a snake, actually a lizard. The only place we saw any wildlife was the preserve.

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Koala at the Preserve.

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Exclusive resort has a small airstrip and a public park.

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Jeff as a Cannon commercial.

Coconut palm trunk.

Trail was a bit of a rough go.

Where's the boat?

Cairns lagoon at sunrise

Cairns - Trinity Bay at low tide.

Cairns street shot.

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The great dividing range.

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epiphytes.

Salt water crock.

Wallaby

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