If you need a break from exploring the reef, why not go 1,076 feet above sea level with a ride on the Kuranda Scenic Railway? Departing from Cairns, the train takes a two-hour journey through the ...

Third place went to the Kuranda Scenic Railway (the clue is in the name, eh?) which runs along the Cairns-to-Kuranda line in Australia past the Barron Gorge National Park and Barron Falls.

The five-year-old boy, visiting with his family from Japan, was aboard the Kuranda Scenic Railway on Saturday afternoon when the rock was thrown just before 4pm, near an intersection in Cairns North.