We decided to keep our rental car for an extra day and drive down to the tablelands for the day. The drive wasn't very long (only 1.5 hours) however there were 40km of super windy roads through the mountains where you couldn't go more than 20 or 30 km/h since there were 180 degree corners one after the other. We drove to
Atherton for lunch (Malaysian curries) and then drove around
Yungaburra stopping to look at some crazy fig trees (a cathedral fig tree that has a canopy the size of two
Olympic sized swimming pools, and a curtain fig tree which fell onto another tree forming a curtain of fig roots) and do a hike around a (volcanic) crater lake. We finished our day at a platypus lookout hoping to spot one coming out for its dusk feeding. Unfortunately all we saw were turtles. Shucks.
We drove back to Cairns, had an amazing Asian dinner - I had tofu in a garlic sauce, and then Craig dropped me off at the Greyhound station and took the car to the airport (the only place they do late drop off). While I was sitting at the greyhound station alone at 10pm with all our bags I could hear all the bats flying over me - Cairns has a lot of fruit bats in the trees.
We caught the bus shortly after midnight to Airlie Beach.
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