Back to work tomorrow!

1. The Pub with no beer. 2. Mareeba Welands. 3. The Chillagoe caves

I had a great day today. I went on a tour to Chillagoe Caves and Outback. The day started at 7 am when i got picked up and we headed off towards Kuranda to the Mareeba Wetlands where we had morning coffee. It was beautiful ! Lots of birds great for the serious or not so serious bird watcher. We left there and went on to the Chillagoe caves. It was quite a long drive. met up with the ranger about 12 midday We each got a torch which was great and even better they all worked and we had a backup light. I felt secure with the torch (miners lamp) slung round my shoulder.

The caves are beautiful, with stalactites and stalagmites and the limestone formations are quite spectacular. The spiders were huge! the cockroaches tiny! and the bats I didn't see close up. Luckily no pythons appeared.

We had a pub lunch in the town of Chillagoe, visited the old smelter works further down the road, then we visited the pub with no beer!!

On the way home we stopped at a coffee centre Skybury and in no time at all I was back at the hotel.

Saturday and Sunday were lovely lazy days, Sat I visited the markets as planned, enjoyed coffee and cake in the SUN and reads the newspapers. I walked in the evening, it was a lovely balmy evening. Sunday passed quickly I walked and shopped, sat by the pool for a while then did some scrapbooking. I am scrapping some photographs from Santorini. Its a very small album and I can see that it's going to take a while.

Work tomorrow, I will be on my own - lots to do before I finish up on 26th June

I am off to bed now - til next time...