Last night and tonight I have a new airbnb.  There is a delightful couple living there.  She didn’t speak a lot of English, but was excited to show me all around.  It was kind of like a hostel with only single rooms.  The husband was very excited to meet me and find out what I thought about Trump.  No one can understand why we would have elected him president.  They all look at either like we are crazy or like it’s some bad reality tv show.

Today I went to look for breakfast and had a heck of a time finding a restaurant that was open.  Even though I like the new airbnb better than the last one, it’s far enough from “downtown” to be a hassle.  I did finally find a coffee shop.  After that, I navigated the bus system and finally got to the skyrail station.  The skyrail is a gondola that goes up to Kuranda, an aboriginal village in the mountains near Cairns.  The gondola was so expensive, but it looked awesome from everything I had researched.  The views were great.  They gave you information on the different rainforest ecosystems you would go through so it was educational too.  There were two stops on the way.  One was a boardwalk through the forest and the other was waterfall viewing of Barron Falls.  There is nothing aboriginal looking or feeling about the village.  It’s a tourist mountain village.  I had lunch, did a little shopping and went to another wildlife park.  I am now convinced I am on the animal tour of the world.  I keep wanting to go to zoos and wildlife parks.  So, you will get to see more animal photos today.  The wildlife park in Kuranda has indigenous rescue animals.  They let you take pictures holding the koalas, but I didn’t do that.  You can feed the kangaroos.  I was sooooo excited about feeding kangaroos.  The wallabies were not interested and hid under the boardwalk.  I think they were hiding from the sun, but maybe they were hiding from the people.  One of the kangaroos would let me feed him.  It was very anticlimactic.  But I got to see a baby wombat so that almost made up for the ho hum kangaroo feeding.

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