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<\/figure>The last blog finished while we were at Ellis Beach just north of Cairns<\/strong> waiting for Ann-Elin and Jan-Ove to arrive from Norway. As they were on an early morning flight we decided to move into Cairns for a couple of nights prior to the arrival, this gave us a chance to to get Marge cleaned up a bit as ten months on the road was beginning to show. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n We collected the relatives from the airport on Saturday Oct 6th and to make life even easier we decided to pick up a hire car\u00a0 from Port Douglass on our way up to the Daintree where we stayed for the first two nights.\u00a0 After 2 nights we moved down to Port Douglas<\/strong> stopping for a walk at Mosman Gorge.<\/strong> The next day we did a really good reef snorkelling trip. The boat had a couple of Marine Biologist in the crew so we had a several, pre dive talks which made it all the more interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After the reef dive we decided to go inland to the Atherton Tablelands staying a couple of nights at Lake Tinaroo. The next day William went mountain bike riding and the visitors and myself had a look around Atherton town which is a rather disappointing place. We went to the local “show” which was exceptionally disappointing especially as we had to pay to get in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On the Sunday we did the Mount Sorrow walk<\/strong>. It is shown on the map with warnings “Very Steep – Experienced BushWalkers only” It’s about 7kms return through the rainforest so the good thing is it is fairly sheltered from the sun, but it is really really steep and difficult in parts because of all the tree roots. Any way we made it\u00a0 but spent the next few days with very sore legs.\u00a0 I was quite pleased that even our super fit Norwegian visitors felt sore for a couple of days.
The Daintree campsite was next to the beach but no swimming ‘cos of the crocs. We actually walked up the beach and into the mangroves and saw a couple of crocs in the water and on the bank so they really do exist just up the beach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Cape](\"https:\/\/www.zenandcement.com\/marge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DaintreeCapeTribulation-1024x768.jpg\")
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There is great concern about the reef and the effects of “coral bleaching” and these guys didn’t hold back about the current governments’ total lack of action on Climate Change and their $400M gift to some unknown conservation group . It was really rousing stuff, the only thing missing was a chorus of the The Internationale!<\/em> I really enjoyed it.
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