The Crystal Cascades in Cairns

Our first view of Cairns was from a lookout on the Kennedy Highway.  It may have been love at first sight.  We felt like we were back in Tassie on this road!  Mountainous and curvy.  Towing a caravan is never more fun. 🙂 We stayed at the best caravan park near the Crystal Cascades.  Cairns is in tropical far north Queensland.  These stats are amazing! We walked up to see the Crystal Cascades waterfall first. We took in the view and the kids started climbing and exploring and throwing rocks in the water, as kids do.  We read that this area is popular with locals during the summer since the ocean is full of stingers.  We saw plenty of tourists that day. I love these pictures of JitterBug, he has such a satisfied expression on his face after throwing that rock in. Then, of course, we had to play a round of Freak Mama Out. Some of us were told we were too little to climb the waterfall so we consoled each other the best we could. (I looove seeing sibling hugs!) We spent a good amount of time here, so we had a yummy snack before we headed back down the trail for a swim in one of the waterholes. The water was cold.  Quite cold. Some of us were more crazy adventurous than others. We don’t get many family pictures with all of us, we need to do it more often! My little pharaoh! Cairns is lovely!  More to come…