Kuranda - Our return to the Kuranda Candy Kitchen...

Ryan, Eric and I (Emily) have decided that the Kuranda Candy Kitchen is EPIC...

We spent an afternoon watching the Kuranda Candy Kitchen owners (Mel and Chris) making fresh candy and Mum noticed that they also made personalised candy to order!

After ages and ages of discussion Mum and Dad decided to place a special order for 4 kg of Lucey Blue lemonade candy. But when we went to place the order the owners said they could not fit in all the letters required to write Lucey Blue in less than a 10 kg lump of candy!  

After much consideration Dad s-l-o-w-l-y agreed to our pleas and we placed an order for the largest lump of candy ever seen by the crew of Lucey Blue. Unfortunately they could not make our candy straight away so we had to come back a few days later - the hardships we have to endure.

The process of making handmade candy is super complicated and I was glad that the professionals were in charge! First you have to melt heaps of sugar, add in colours to form the individual components and then stress the candy mix by pulling it on a hook.

Then you need to assemble the components in the correct three-dimensional form before they cool down too much and get too hard to work with. I don't know how they knew where to put all the bits! It was so confusing, but luckily they knew where everything went.

(This black and white piano like piece says "Lucey")

Finally you have to roll out the candy so it can be pulled into long strips and broken up ready to eat. Our candy was kind of hard to roll (as you can see from below) because the bits used to make up the boat and the words had to be hardened so they would not get squished up.

The last job was to eat it!!! That was the best and the easiest job ever! We got to try a piece of the candy before they finished and it was great! After they had packaged all 10 kg (which took a while) we had the best candy EVER!!!!

We definitely will have enough to share with all our guests aboard Lucey Blue! Mum says that next time we eat a piece we should think about all the work that has gone into making it!!!!!!!!! :-)

Kuranda - A great day trip...

We took the old train to Kuranda. The 11 heritage coaches were pulled by a 1720 class locomotive. ( I like that word, lo-co-mo-tive.) The trip was really awesome, first we went around this really big curve in the track, it was there so the old trains could build up speed and climb the mountain. Later on we passed Stony Creek falls which was E-P-I-C! Then we went through the last of the 15 hand-carved tunnels on the line, which was a bit freaky but still pretty cool.

We stopped at Barron Falls along the way and Dad took the picture below of us on the train...

Barron Falls was cool it dropped 265 metres :-()!

At Kuranda we visited the lollie shop and I (Emily) bought some Kuranda rock candy, YUM! We also visited the markets and the butterfly farm.

The butterflies loved Eric's orange shoes! They were very friendly and landed on our heads and shoulders and knees and toes! It was hard to walk as the butterflies kept flying in between your legs.

We took the SkyRail on the way back and it was E-P-I-C! We went above a wide river and there was so many trees you couldn't see the rainforest floor. Mum kept saying that it would stop and we would have to live off the rock candy and salted caramel fudge, which probably wouldn't be a HUGE problem.

 Kurunda was awesome! Ryan, Eric and I hope we can go back soon.