Atherton

Farewell Cairns and The Coconut Palms Caravan Park.  You will be missed by the kids.  We headed to Atherton via Gordonvale up the steep and windy climb we received mixed reports on.  It was fine in the end, but as they warned, very windy and extremely steep.  Rick didn't seem concerned although I couldn't bare to look. It was pretty and a gorgeous drive once we got to the top.  The drive was about 45 minutes, so we were in Atherton early afternoon. The caravan park was lovely and we were given a great spot complete with scooter track for the kids to hoon down. And they did. We ventured out for a drive through the main street, which was busy but nothing worth mentioning.  On to the cheese and chocolate factory out of town which the kids loved of course even more so when we stumbled upon the animal nursery they had out the back with chickens, cows and roosters. In to the dairy and we got to see cows being herded into the pens and milked.  The guy working in the pen was particularly odd and squirted milk into the air to show the kids and then started squirting it into his mouth.  He had no teeth and looked like he had been hanging out with cows too much. Anyway the kids thought it was most fancy and needed some encouragement to leave.  A drive back into town to get some groceries and to find a heater as the one in the van has broken and it was supposed to drop to below 10 degrees overnight.  Three stores later and no luck as the shops had shut, it was time to get home.  Cereal for dinner at the request of the kids and the day was over.