A quick trip from Sydney to North Queensland took us to Trinity Beach, Cairns. Good to relax, kick back and not do much although with my son in tow, always something to look forward to such as Cairns to Kuranda sky rail, Kuranda to Cairns train and crocodile parks! Here’s some of his highlights with important boy facts!

• A turtle can breathe through its bottom.
• A cassowary eats $500 worth of fruit a week.
• A cassowary can’t get enough nutrition from all the seeds, fruit and nuts it eats so when it comes out the other end, it eats it all up again! Or in 8-year-old boy speak: a cassowary eats its poo!
• Koalas sleep a lot because gum leaves don’t provide much energy.
• A crocodile can go for a year without food. But the ones we saw quite happily snapped up freshly killed chickens – scary!
• You can hear an adult crocodile snap his jaws 4 kilometres away.
• You can float your jandals (thongs if you’re an Aussie) in the man-made water-ways that run through Salthouse, the newly opened, really cool restaurant and outdoor cafe/tapas bar on the Cairns esplanade.
• Captain Cook is popular in North Queensland. There’s a statue of him, a university named after him, a highway, a motel, a tourist cruise company and a town called Cooktown.

Am now back to normality in NZ and will be back ‘on topic’ with my next written post (although will photoblog a few pics from Cairns soon too) ..c