Still, the chocolate was rather good, and I escaped with some dark Chilli and lime and black pepper that'll go down a treat on a chilly night, and a sample of filter coffee.
Next stop on the agenda was the Mt Uncle Distillery, where I figured there'd be something interesting. There was, but they'd opted to close the regular tasting area and we found ourselves Ina corner of the cafe, sampling a very good (actually, seriously good) white rum, though had I seen the price tag before I decided to buy I might have had second thoughts. I'm not exactly a connoisseur of white rum, but even at $60 I thought it was reasonably good value.
With those stops out of the way it was time to head for the accommodation, which was supposed to be 26 km from the turnoff to Kuranda. We were around the 23k mark when we spotted a sign, which you might have thought was a warning that the turnoff was coming up, and have been looking for a sign on the left pointing you in the appropriate direction. If I hadn't spotted a Cedar Park Rainforest Resort logo beside a track leading off to the right we might have been looking for some time.
My prediction that we'd somehow chosen the lesser of two avenues of entry, made as a fairly rough dirt track twisted and turned through the scrub turned out to be totally erroneous. There's just one track in to Cedar Park, but when you get there the twists and turns are definitely worth it. More...