Hanging on a Moonbeam

....It's been a while since our last blog ...we made it to the East coast visiting Cooktown and Cape Tribulation along the way to Cairns.  Both these towns are famous thanks to the illustrious Captain Cook who has left his imprint in many places in the Southern Hemisphere.

Once again we took the road less traveled and I was thankful we had a 4wd and a good driver behind the wheel.  But we did get stuck on a muddy hill and I was ready to walk the rest of the way if needed when along came our rescuers.  They took the time to unhitch their trailer and hitch up KiaRoo pulling us all the way up the hill to solid road.  A huge thank you to the kindness of Mark and Robyn in their Toyota Land Cruiser.  

The coast is lovely here, but the signs warning of crocodiles kind of put you off going in for a swim. The weather had been rather poor this past week; cool, very windy and raining, so we were happy to meet up with Ken and Lil in Cairns and take a break from our traveling.  We'll spend the next week hanging out on Moonbeam at the Yorkey's Knob Marina.

The weather is clearing up nicely (now that Denise and Betty have left) so it's time to provision and get out of port for a couple of days.