G'day!

Wednesday, March 28

Today we went on a Daintree Rainforest expedition! We woke up and went onto a train. This train was really cool because we were on a railroad that was built in 1870. At the train station there was a museum that showed us artifacts such as old pieces of the train cars, mining cars, luggage, telephone booths, and many photos from back when the train had just been built. We also got to see the house of the man who helped build the original train and tracks. His name was Red Lynch. The train was built to get gold from Queensland, Australia to Cairns,  (Cairns is where we're staying right now.) 
We rode the train into the town of Kuranda to go on a Rain Forest walk. While we were walking we saw many things.
1. We saw the 8th most poisinous snake in the world. It was called the "Red Belly snake." this snake is usually found in rainforests and jungles.
2. We saw bats. In Australia there are huge bats! They are different from other bats because they come out during the day. 
3. We saw a huge Wolf spider. The great thing about wolf spiders is they are not poisonous to people. Wolf spiders are all over Australia but are only dangerous to bugs.
And...
4. We rode a sky rail over the rainforest and saw a waterfall called Barron Falls. Barron Falls stands over 900 ft tall!  

Http://www.google.com.au/search?q=barron+falls+australia&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8PByT_XiLqWViAeswZ3kDw&ved=0CBwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=672