Cairns - Tropical vegetation - The red poinsettia trees were a knock out. They were at their height of splendour at Christmas. The middle picture is how exotic and thick the foliage is inside the tropical rain forest when you get out of your 4WD. All along the train tracks coming out of the rain forest back down to Cairns were fruit trees that had dropped a banquet of fruit - coconuts, mangoes, papayas, bananas, pineapples which attracted beautiful birds of all colours!