Queensland, 27 July 2022
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Click on any image to see it larger (If you are on a PC at least).

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We stayed a night in Kuranda, just outside of Cairns. The next day we drove down the hill to Cairns so we could take the Sky Rail up to Kuranda and then the historic railway down. The previous two posts have covered the Butterfly Sanctuary and BirdWorld that we visited while we were in Kuranda that day; this is the journey up on the Sky Rail and down on the train.

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It was a normal day.

The sky was blood red due to advanced effects of climate change.  Far away, parts of the Pacific Ocean were boiling and New York was submerged.  The atomic bomb that Russia accidentally dropped on China may have been a factor.  The gondola was also a time machine.

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Looking down.

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Remarkable that the trees were still there, really, after all that Climate Change.

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Mind you, it probably would have been a red cedar forest in the nineteenth century but they were all chopped down.

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(Red, yellow and blue.  perhaps we’re in Armenia).

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Suddenly the weather changed and we were back in the first part of the twenty-first century.

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As far as I know, I’ve never seen an alien.

The approaching gondola appears to be empty.  That’s because there are aliens in it.  After all, why would a gondola be empty?  You can’t see aliens because of their ontological problems.

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The time sequence is changing again and appears to be a bit unstable.

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Woo, that’s different.  Barron Falls.

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Many of these images, perhaps all between the two images with gondolas, were taken from a platform where the SkyRail briefly stopped.  Hence, in this one, the sapling at the right.

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The time horizon is changing minute by minute…..

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Another gondola is approaching us and this time there are people in it.  You can tell they are real people because you can see them.  There may be a large ghostly image of an alien here too..

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Now we are on our way back in the historic train.  The view is only on the left hand side and my ticket consigned me to the right had side, by the valley wall.  So not many images from that journey.

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The one thing I was able to photograph on that side of the train was a waterfall, for a few seconds as we passed it by.  It was resplendent with its cyan-green water spilling down the yellow and red-brown landscape.

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I was able to sneak this view though the left side with a long telephoto.  Cairns is in the distance though not visible.

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As you see in the background, there were quite a few carriages in the train.

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(And yes, there were one or two infrared images in this post.  Perhaps you noticed.)

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