The day started out nicely with surprisingly good road and interesting scenery, but it went downhill rapidly for me, when we started crossing moutains via thin extremely windy roads for kilometre after kilometre with sheer drop often on both sides of the road with oncoming trucks and assorted other things like silly bloody nomads and their caravans. Himself really enjoyed the drive, I swung from terrified to tearfully begging to go back or to slow to a snails pace. And then Qld Main Roads got in on the act and had roadworks happening. They had closed small sections to one lane at a time traffic, so there we are in queue waiting for the man on the stop and go to get done with picking his nose and scratching his bum, all the while sitting on the edge of a bloody oversized hill with a long long way to the bottom! Was apparently a pretty drive full of interesting rain forest and amazingly green farming land......if you had your eyes open at the time. We had been warned not to take a particular road to Cairns as it is too windy and steep..... and we stayed off that road, but by the time we arrived in Atherton I was starting to query if we had taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way and somehow gotten onto the bad road. Not so, we were on the "good" road. Guess we will definately not take that other road to Cairns. My nerves and his patience just will not take another ride like todays.
On arrival in Atherton we toured the Crystal Caves. This is a shop in the main street of Atherton that specializes in crystals and fossils. They have heaps of natural crystals from all over the world with an emphasis on Amethyst, and part of the paid tour in their Crystal Caves is to see the Empress of Uruguay which is a massive piece of amethyst that has to be seen to be believed, Absolutely awesome.
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