Day 66 Palm Cove to Kurrimine Beach

It was a moving day and it was hard to get motavited to pack up and move from our lovely little beachfront caravan site. After a little bit of deal making with the children, we were packed and heading to the swimming area for a 10 minute cool down in the waves before moving on.

It was only a small drive to our first stop which was The Boulders Flora and Fauna Reserve at Babinda which had a very scenic mountain stream.

There were parts of the gorge that were barricaded off and marked with about six danger signs at each point. Apparently they lose a few tourists there each year, where the water sucks them down under the rocks. It would appear that Babinda might claim more lives than crocodiles do up here. If you zoom in on the picture you can see some guys standing on the rocks where they shouldn't be.

Back at the main picnic ground we had some lunch and were much amazed to see a rooster walk out of the rainforest undergrowth (yes your stock standard rooster. It wasn't long however before a much bigger bird wandered out of the bushes - a dirty big Cassowary. It doesn't seem that you get to see too many in the wild, so everyone was stoked. Their aggressive nature was shown too as at one point it chased a car.

After lunch and all the excitement we of course had the obligatory swim at the 'safe' swimming section, a lovely pool which was at the junction of two streams.

We then continued on our merry way and started passing through many banana plantations that seemed to be producing again after cyclone Yasi devastated the area earlier this year.

We pulled in at our destinatination of Kurrimine Beach late in the day and stayed in a smallish council park right on the beach. It was still a bit smashed around by the cyclone but in general was cheap and nice.