Cairns - Day 7

Not too much to report today. When I was hanging towels outside this morning I came across this little guy.

We think he is a Dainty Tree Frog. He stayed snuggled onto the chair leg all day. The sun is going down now and we’re keeping an eye on him to see when he makes his move. We also had a visit from a kookaburra.

We headed into Cairns one last time today to pick up a few things. It’s strange because suddenly when you’re looking for souvenir t-shirts you can’t find any – yet, last time we were in town I’m sure every other store was full of t-shirts, towels, cheap boomerangs and hats. We indulged in gelato too, apparently not as good as what they serve in Italy….but as good as I’ve ever had! It really puts cheap ice cream into perspective. As we were walking we heard a lot of commotion up in one of the big trees - we thought it was birds but Jeff pointed out that they were huge fruit bats.

If you can enlarge the picture you can see the bats are hanging in the top branches - this was only one of the trees and probably had the least bats on it.

We visited the beach and the pool one last time and lamented about our early departure tomorrow from this paradise. Cairns was a last minute addition to our itinerary but now I can’t imagine coming all the way to Australia and not spending any time here (take note all you who plan to visit Australia!).

The boys spent most of the time wrestling in the water and Kristen tried her best to body surf.