After 3 days of mixed weather and some rough seas it is time to head south but not that far, only 65 kilometres to Cairns. And at least for the first part of the day we had blue skies so at least we can have some good views of the coast as we travel along the Captain Cook Highway.
There is a lot of pull offs along this part of the road to allow slow vehicles to let the faster vehicles past. Even though we weren’t holding up the traffic with the Holden Colorado pulling the Thommo Taj, there just happened to be a series of geocaches hidden along the road in each of these pull offs, so I veered off just in case anyone wanted to overtake.
Nearing the end of the journey there is a lookout, Rex Lookout, that is used by hang gliders as a take off point but I think the wind was too strong for them today.
Even though it was only a short journey, it still seemed to take more than 2 hours. I wonder why that was.
We managed to get into our site early at Lake Placid Tourist Park and set up. My foot was still in intense pain from the gout, so I spent the rest of the day with my foot elevated to try and reduce the swelling, while Jenny and Rachael headed out for some retail therapy.
Tomorrow we head up into the mountains and the rainforest. Hopefully the weather remains at least a little sunny but I don’t think we will be that lucky.
