Todays travels take us from Townsville to Port Douglas with a stop on the way at Cairns Airport to pick up Rachael who is spending the week with us in Far North Queensland. 

We allowed plenty of time to make the journey leaving an hour earlier than we normally do but there was no accounting for roadwork delays and there were plenty.

There was also a couple of stops for big things today. First stop was at Frosty Mango with mango icecream to die for but very expensive and the second stop was the Golden Gumboot in Tully. The height of the gumboot represents the amount of rainfall that Tully receives each year. Across the road was a sugar refinery which has started strong with cane trains lining up to go in and drop their loads.

After encountering heavy rain around Innisfail, we drove into Cairns Airport about an hour later than expected. Of course, the airport is not large vehicle friendly but did manage to find Rachael and upset some taxi drivers at the same time. Lets say they know how to use their horns and mine works well too.

It is only 60 kilometres north to Port Douglas but the road is windy and hilly so takes a little longer than expected with the ThommoTaj in tow. 

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