Day 17, Saturday, February 20 2010
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We went to the Flecker Botanical Gardens which is in the north of Cairns. There were many unusual and really beautiful plants and trees to see. I also has a sudden wish to define my favourite tree, which is a paperbark tree. They also had a little nursery for orchids and other small plants and trees.
We started a walk up the 5.4km long trail to Mt Whitfield Conservation Park, which is just next to the botanical garden. There we got run over by quite a heavy rain fall which simply did not want to stop anymore and so, completly soaked, we had to head back to the hostel and have a nice hot shower to get warm and dry again. This was also probably my first shower with warm water at all this entire holiday.