No Postie Run 8-(

We're back at the internet cafe after a long day. We had a nice day in spite of the fact that nothing worked out as planned.
We took a cab to the Areo-Tropics place and arrived in plenty of time. It soon became clear that something was amiss. It turns out that Tours-to-go never forwarded out data to them! They was some kind of a computer crash a while back and misc other details. The manager was very apologetic, saying that he had two people there who he had to bump from the previous day plus some very important cargo and adding Mary and I would be too much. The one thing we had firmly scheduled was not going to happen. We asked about flying on Friday but there was no room. They did drive us back to our hotel.
As we drove I was thinking about options. One thing I wanted to do but did not fit into our schedule was a boat ride on the Daintree river through the rain forest. So we headed into town and found a tour booking agent. It was too late to catch the river cruise I wanted, but another that included another stop was available so we grabbed it.
We caught the bus to Port Douglas, then had about 90 minutes to look around the town before our tour started. It was a nice town and we enjoyed that, including lunch at Macko's Pies. The bus driver was pretty interesting and had some cute material ("snapping handbags" = crocodile) and was very knowledgeable about the area. The river tour was less than I expected - a 1 hour boat ride where we saw 4 crocodiles. On our crocodile tour in Costa Rica we save 2 dozen on more on the same or less amount of river. But it was very relaxing and somewhat interesting. We then headed to a canyon (who's name I forget) and walked some trails. That was very nice since it was walking in a rain forest alongside a rushing river.
But we still had a bus ride back to Port Douglas and another hour long ride back to Cairns. We got to our hotel about 6:30.
So it was an interesting day and we saw some cool stuff. But we did not get to do our Postie Run. I guess we'll have to catch than next time we come Down Under.