We all took advantage of an arrangement made by the CMCA to stay in the showground in Cairns for a few days on the way to a Christmas in July chapter rally in Mareeba/pppparently the City Council was a bit taken aback by the number of motorhomes that turned up (over 100) and wanted to make life difficult for us but we are all settled in for a week of sightseeing and shopping/pp've taken the opportunity to finish the installation of the two steps alarms both of which now work. Even the "yellow wire" is functioning so we have the extremely safe system which opens and closes the door automatically and which tells me that it is working correctly every time I use it. Perhaps we will avoid a repetition of the "nasty Incident" at Mission Beach.
I still have to fit an alarm to the TV antenna and I have decided to increase the size of the wiring from the solar panels to the battery so the task list is getting shorter only slowly.
We took a paid tour to Kuranda going up on the train and back on the Skyrail. While Kuranda itself exhibits all the worst characteristics of a tourist trap with few, if any, redeeming features, both the journeys were excellent./pphe railway line is a spectacular feat of railway construction particularly considering the technology and facilities available at the end of the last century, Everything was transported by mules and all the excavation was done by hand in a most inhospitable environment/pphe cableway is equally impressive as a piece of engineering because every effort was made to disturb the environment as little as possible. All the transport was by helicopter and, while the towers and terminal station are massive, they are surrounded literally centimetres (inches) away by virgin rainforest.