sallysetsforth: I’m in Cairns!
sallysetsforth: Spent a gorgeous morning exploring the Cairns Botanic Gardens, particularly admiring the super-sized trees and foliage 🌴😍
sallysetsforth: Stunning palm leaves, seen at the Cairns Botanic Gardens today. So much natural beauty to marvel at 💚
sallysetsforth: Please don’t feed the carnivorous plants ...
sallysetsforth: Gurrabana Gurraminya-djada (Storywater Brothers) by Bernard Singleton for the Shields Street Heart public art project in Cairns
sallysetsforth: Spent this morning on the Kuranda Scenic Railway, north of Cairns. This photo is looking back at the rear of the train while crossing the bridge at Stoney Creek Falls 🚂
sallysetsforth: This is me ⬅️ and this is Tim ➡️ and this is the two of us on a train
sallysetsforth: Swinging over Barron Falls on the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway. Most tourist-y day ever 😆
sallysetsforth: Visited Mossman Gorge today, and walked for three hours without tripping over any tree roots 😆
sallysetsforth: Mossman Gorge, pretty as a picture 💚
sallysetsforth: Coconut Beach 🌴 We’ve just emerged from two beautiful days in the Daintree Rainforest region. A stunning combination of rainforest walks and remote tropical beaches 😍
sallysetsforth: One of the biggest highlights of our time in the Daintree was sighting an elusive cassowary and her chicks while we were walking the Dubuji boardwalk 😍
sallysetsforth: This amazing canopy of fan palms in the Daintree Rainforest reminded me of a Dale Chihuly blown glass ceiling installation - such beauty in nature 😍
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sallysetsforth: I was so inspired by the beautiful fan palms of the Daintree Rainforest (see previous photo) that I filled a page of my current sketchbook with them 😊
sallysetsforth: View from Mount Alexandra in the Daintree Rainforest 💚💙
sallysetsforth: Thornton Beach, just south of Cape Tribulation in the Daintree Rainforest
sallysetsforth: The sand at Thornton Beach is so pretty that it actually sparkles 💎💎 (nature’s glitter!)
sallysetsforth: Heading south again - Rocky Point
sallysetsforth: Our first stop in the Atherton Tablelands was the Golden Drop Mango Winery - home to 17500 mango trees!
sallysetsforth: This is the door bird at Granite Gorge camping ground in Mareeba. He is fully prepared to enforce the ‘no entry’ sign.
sallysetsforth: Rock wallaby with a joey in her pouch at Granite Gorge, Mareeba
sallysetsforth: So this is one of the most adorable things I have ever experienced - hand feeding rock wallabies at Granite Gorge 😍
sallysetsforth: Dying of the cute here! 😍 Hand feeding rock wallabies at Granite Gorge
sallysetsforth: View from the circuit walk at Granite Gorge, Mareeba. Lots of boulder climbing on this one!
sallysetsforth: The magnificent heritage-listed Curtain Fig Tree, near Yungaburra in the Atherton Tablelands
sallysetsforth: Curtain Fig Tree selfie
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sallysetsforth: Some quick drawings of umbrella tree leaves with different pens in my sketchbook 😊 I’ve taken so many photos of tropical foliage on this trip! 💚
sallysetsforth: Lake Eacham, Crater Lakes National Park
sallysetsforth: Millaa Millaa Falls
sallysetsforth: Ellinjaa Falls was my favourite stop on the Waterfall Circuit. We had it all to ourselves and it was amazing 😍