It's still raining! We're going to Cairns but stopped at the Josephine Falls – just to have a look and decide if we should come back when no rain is about. The falls are good – 3 falls forming one fall. You can actually swim at the lowest section (but it can be dangerous – 2 swimmer had to be rescued just days before as the water was suddenly rising – flesh flooding). The upper section is not accessible at all – you can just watch from a platform – but the view is brilliant.
Back in Cairns we took a cabin in a caravan park (not possible to pitch a tent and the cabin didn't cost more than a camp site anyway). Unfortunately we learnt that the guys in Cairns can't help us lifting the car – they can't supply heavy duty coils so we have to look somewhere else. This time we did the first “tourist thing” in Cairns – we visited the zoo in the dome. It's a nice little zoo featuring a crocodile, some cockatoos, 
frogmouths,,, and the ticket is actually valid for 5 days... so you could return. Big Bird, one really tame black cockatoo, is a character. If you stretch your arm into his direction he will crawl up to have a close look at you. I couldn't get him off – he was too fascinated by my cap (especially the little dot on top of it). We walked around on our own and then joined the feed-walk. Really interesting and informative. The 
frogmouth and kookaburra have interesting eating habits - they ensure they prey is dead by knocking the head sideways onto a hard surface. We even saw this habit in the wild while having lunch at Lake Tinaroo. Unfortunately the crocodile wasn't fed when we were there – it's on a diet on Friday and Saturday.
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