Well mates, we’re on the Atherton Plateau.  Warm in the day, cool at night.  Rainforest on the slope to the coast, progressively drier ground to the west.  Here seems a bit like California with agriculture and water being what people talk about.  They grow a lot of sugar and other things.  Today we had lunch at a coffee factory.  Day before we birded on a tea farm.

Abroad a month now, I just had a haircut.  We find internet in a visitor center.  All good.  Tomorrow we drive back to the coast where we will enjoy a few days again in the warm tropics.  We will be on the beach and looking for Cassuwary.  Our loop about Cairns is almost complete.  The next flight will take us back to Sydney where we will visit the town and make another loop tour, this time of temperate southeastern Australia.  Spring has arrived.  Our second this year.  How nice.

On first night here visited the creek to see platypus.  Folks scoffed, but we saw a few of them.  Have also seen all kinds of hoppy creatures and even the strange sugar gliders.  Is it true naturalists have more fun?