Cairns isn't the coolest city, but it does have the coolest stuff around it, as I discovered yesterday upon traipsing to the rain forest and various ports of call. Jan organized a tour trip van style (coulda done with a little less van though) up through some more rainforest and to Port Tribulation, complete with a croc swim. George, a hillarious, storytelling, sarcastic jokester was our guide and regaled us with Aboriginal stories the entire time, which i quite enjoyed, even if i just wanted outa the van. We went to Mossman Gorge and saw tall tall trees glistening with fresh rain with vines wrapped all around them, enormous , poisonous, colorful spiders and the coolest spiderwebs I've ever seen. Leaves, leaves, leaves so many varieties and bright bright greens and intricate bubbles and designs and derivations. It rained most of the day which was okay with me, rain in the rainforest. Our final destination was Cape Tribulation a rather sketchy place with stingray warnings and croc warnings and lizard warnings, but the sand crabs made the most beautiful designs in the sand you've ever seen. They suck the nutrients out of the sand and in the process ball them up with saliva and then thrown them out their little holes in the sand, and are constantly scurrying about. So if you stare across the beach you can see tiny movement everywhere. Really cool. And it smelled like wet tree bark and salty sand and foliage, mmmm i wanted to eat it. Now i get all those rainforest perfumes(not that they smell anything like it). Anyways, I. have. to. stop. blogging. it has stopped raining here so i'm out! love to all!
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