Sunday morning – at a beautiful free camp site – we awoke to bright blue cloudless skies and a day that was heating up fast. After brekky we had a coffee and listened to the next sermon on Daniel 11 – one instalment left to go! Everyone got a great encouragement from God’s Word reminding us that everyone needs Christ and now is the time to seek Him….

A couple of wild ducks wandered up from the creek for a feed…obviously aware that campers are a great source of food as they were completely unafraid. Rosie could not resist sacrificing a couple of Weetbix for the cause!!

We left the camp and drove through Ravenshoe on to Atherton. The weather changed remarkably quickly as did the landscape. From dry, arid land with clear blue sky to foggy wet green forests in a matter of kilometres.

The area was very fertile with rolling hills of farmland, sugarcane, macadamia nuts and mango tree plantations.

At Atherton we stopped for “coffee after coffee” -a Sunday tradition – and then drove on to Cairns to Lake Placid Tourist Park where we were booked in for 3 nights.

The drive through Atherton tablelands and down the escarpment was beautiful – amazing tropical rainforest…

The caravan park was right near Lake Placid and Trev and Gordie luxuriated in the thick green grass the like of which we had not seen for more than 2 months.

Everyone needed to get supplies from the shops so Bunnings and Coles were patronised by all…..