The alarm went off at 4:45 am and admitted it was not easy getting our carcasses out of bed. But anticipation of an adventure motivated us to make our way to the shower for a quick wake-up and then off to the airport. The 3 hour flight up to Cairns was smooth sailing with limited view as there was many clouds. After a warm greeting from a friend we haven’t seen in 13 years and his beautiful wife and son we’ve never met, we were off for a drive, lunch and some grocery shopping. We perused the aisles at Woolies (Woolworths to be exact – and it’s a grocery store here; not like the department store from our younger 
days), and decided on a nice selection of groceries….fruit, veggies, cereal, water, kangaroo meat & Vegi-mite! Jamie was going to go for the kanga burgers but opted or the kanga steaks… the very dark lean meat which turned out to be delish! (I wonder if I can buy it canned to bring home – kind of like when I brought home canned gater meat from one of our adventures).
It was a fabulous evening of ‘catching up’ with our friends, Jason and Kim, and hearing stories of their life as missionary pilots on a secluded island in the Northern Territories.
Tomorrow it’s a drive farther north to Port Douglas to take in the awesome view of the reef and the Coral Sea.
Stratford QLD 4870, Australia