Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th February
The two-day train journey from Brisbane to Cairns.
This is the view from our room in Brisbane on Thursday morning where we could watch the renovations nearing completition on City Hall.
After checking in our luggage, we explored the gardens around Roma Street Station.
The locomotive pulling our train was powerful as it had to pull about fifteen carriages. We left in a downpour which didn't stop for three or four hours into the journey.
In the Queenslander class we were entertained for much of the journey by a musician, who is a Beatles fan.
There was a huge variety of landscapes, including farmland, forests, hills, lakes and general marshland.
Running alongside the tracks for most of the journey was the Bruce Highway, the road from Brisbane to Cairns.
We saw vast areas of sugar cane with narrow guage railway tracks running by the side of the fields and irrigation pipes all over.
We passed the largest sugar cane processing plant in Queensland.
One of the lunch choices is the iconic Queensland Seafood platter which includes Morton Bay bugs - very tasty.
In the banana plantations the bunches of bananas are covered in plastic to protect them from bats.
We arrived on time in Cairns and were met and brought to Rendevous Reef Resort on a very hot and humid night.
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