Our last few days

Rain.... I have never seen anything like it.......... bucket loads and totally unremitting .

We knew it was wet season..... but usually that means heavy showers with hot sun in between !

However, we have been really lucky with the weather on the whole and so in the end we didn't let it dampen our fun...

we headed into Cairns for the afternoon, did some shopping, swum in the outdoor lagoon,

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marvelled at the clean ,cared for tourist town and headed back for a last supper, packing and onwards the next day to Sydney.
 
Lowenna's scissors in her hand luggage caused a security scare but other than that the various rocks and stones and beach memorabilia got through OK.

Our last 24 hours went in a flash.... we headed up the Ku-Ring-Gai for a last potter

saw a wallaby, said sad goodbyes and so it was the last trip to the airport, the last check in queue, the last crossed fingers at stuff hidden in our hand luggage, a huge 380 airbus for our journey complete with screaming baby in front of us... 7 hour flight to Singapore, 3 hour wait while they mended a puncture in the nose wheel, 14 hours home... Heathrow.... the end

or is it ??