Our last full day in Cairns we spent out at Kuranda. Again, it was another small town with some fantastic markets. We went through every gallery, shop, and vendors table, buying cloths, looking at opals, seeing what other things these people make and then sale.
Kuranda has a really neat place called “Batreach.” It’s just a lady, and I guess her husband, that took in an injured bat a while back and rehabilitated it back to health. Then another. Then another. Today, they have their own license and outdoor living areas set up to care for all kinds of bats, big and small. The lady called them all by name, which the bats responded to, held them, brought them over for pictures, fed them, whatever. She was totally at home with them, and they with her. She told us all about several of them, including the ones that have been released already, but keep coming back for whatever reason, sleeping outside the cages, but still amongst the other bats.
We spent roughly ½ hour talking to the lady and taking pictures. Kimberly got a t-shirt and we went back up to the markets.
Also in Kuranda is a small “zoo” called the Koala Gardens, where we saw wallabies (Sabrina’s first time to feed and pet them), snakes, crocodile, and, of course, Koalas. We all got to hold “Cheebi” the koala for photos.
Then it was back to the markets, and then the short drive back to Cairns. The next day was mostly travel, and we headed back to Sydney that night.
