Cairns Day 3 - Kuranda, Birds, SkyRail and a Train

Day three begins with a SkyRail ride up over the Rainforest to the small little town of Kuranda!  The SkyRail ride was about 45 minutes and it made two stops.  The first for jungle selfies, obvi, and the second stop was to take in the waterfall.

SkyRail over the Rainforest

Jungle selfie featuring jungle themed pocket tee

Waterfall

After the waterfall stop I had a SkyRail car all to myself, so of course I had to take more photos.

The SkyRail drops you off right at the entrance to Kuranda, a small little village with shops as well as a butterfly sanctuary, a bird aviary and a place you can hold a koala.  Here's the entrance of the village and then some photos of me at the bird aviary, my chosen excursion.

I then made my very first close friend of the trip.  A bird, who I'll call Chirpy.  He sounded a lot like me actually and we became fast friends, even though he scared me a little bit.  This was probably Enzo's mini freak-out #2 of the trip for those of you keeping count, though again I mostly got over it.  I didn't really do anything to get the bird to chat with me, Chirpy I guess just took a liking to my charm and aura?  If only it were always so easy? :)

Chirpy and Me

If the photo isn't enough, don't worry, Chirpy and I also star in our own 10 second video, with audio too:

After saying goodbye to Chirpy, I had lunch and spent some more time checking out the shops of Kuranda.  Lot's of didgeridoos! Then I made my way down to the little train station for the scenic ride back to Cairns.

Certainly some great scenery to take in from the train and from a slightly different perspective compared to the ride on the SkyRail on the way up.

Finally to end the day I had dinner with an Aussie I'd met in Cairns which was a real treat!  Shh, don't tell Chirpy.  It's so funny talking to someone who speaks the same language but uses so many words that you're not used to.  It was nice to hear about Cairns from the perspective of a local.  Tourism really is what seems to keep the whole town in business.  The place he selected for dinner gave me a chuckle.  Am I going to Outback Steakhouse?  Ha, though I will say the steaks were great and there was no bloomin' onion on the menu.  Sorry I didn't photograph the food or him, cause like, that's weird.  I did sneak in just one photo:

With that, my time in Carins comes to close.  Up next Alice Springs in the Australian Outback!