Things to See and Do in Cairns

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  • May 9, 2005: ... anchored just off a spectacular reef. The boat was Reef Encounter, the crew (much of it Canadian... not to show any bias or ...
  • Jun 1, 2008: ... over to the liveaboard and just went back to Cairns with the Crappy Reef Encounter. When I got back to the office, they ...
  • Nov 17, 2008: ... reef for a day, and after lunch you are tranferred to the Reef Encounter, which was to be our home for the next days.  ...
  • Apr 30, 2005: ... hard keeno's made it for that one! We headed out to a boat (Reef Encounter) that is moored out on the reef for 3 days out ...
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  • May 7, 2009: ... pretty quiet other then my attempt to drive up to Yorkeys Knob, apparently I need some adjustment still as I was driving on ...
  • Apr 13, 2005: ... fish, so just tipping toes into water. Drove down to Yorkeys Knob (what a name!) Beach next, but very windy there. Lunch in ...
  • Jun 14, 2007: ... a really nice beach.  Then we went to a place called Yorkeys Knob!  Just another beach resort, again really nice.& ...
  • Jan 7, 2006: ... and we really hope Jamie wont mind wearing a polo shirt with "Yorkeys Knob" Golf Club on it! At the airport we had a ...
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  • Oct 23, 2006: ... to. The best part of tyhe dfay was our next stop at Paronella Park. It is this big spanish style castle that was built in ...
  • Nov 16, 2004: ... around the Atherton Tablelands, including some waterfalls and Paronella Park - a now ruined Spanish-themed park built by a ...
  • Oct 15, 2007: ... had in my life!!) & then went to this place called Paronella Park which was cool. It's a neglected/burnt out castle that ...
  • May 28, 2009: ... 8220;Wonder Woman” at Cape Tribulation -  Revisiting Paronella Park and the beautiful Mossman Gorge -  Going ...
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  • Feb 8, 2006: ... us to Tully Railway Station (also strangely used as the Raging Thunder office), a journey taking around an hour and a half, ...
  • Feb 23, 2004: ... 8.00am till 3.30 with the Xtreme Team from the Tully Raging Thunder Rafting Company. It was fantastic. We did some amazing ...
  • Jan 2, 2007: G'day Mates, I just returned from taking the Raging Thunder ferry from Cairns to Fitzroy Island.  Fitzroy Island is one ...
  • Jul 23, 2005: ... be up in Tully, in the Tully River. The company was called Raging Thunder. The weather was not the best for white water ...
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  • Oct 24, 2004: ... quick as we could on the superb Skyrail. The skyrail rainforest cableway runs between Kuranda and the Caravonica Terminal ...
  • Dec 22, 2008: ... morning we returned to Cairns and our patiently waiting Charlie via the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, a.k.a. the gondola of ...
  • Apr 22, 2006: ... visiting the village of Kuranda by taking the 7.5 km skyrail rainforest cableway. So this morning, we took a chance with the ...
  • Sep 8, 2006: ... as we have an early trip on Sunday to Kuranda to take the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway to the rainforest for the day and we ...
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  • Oct 8, 2009: ... been blessed by good health, good luck, no mishaps, great adventures, and have thoroughly enjoyed the good natured Aussies.& ...
  • May 4, 2008: ... all the same!   We went with a company called Great Adventures, not bad, very touristy but then that's what we are. ...
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  • Jun 15, 2006: ... a few leaflets for day tours from Cairns, and eventually booked on one with Billy Tea Bush Safaris - as it turned out, the ...
  • Feb 27, 2006: ... , the oldest forest on Earth. It was run by Billy Tea Bush Safaris, whom I can wholeheartedly recommend, and was one of the ...
  • May 31, 2006: ... trip up to Cape Tribulation with an amazing company called "Billy Tea Bush Safaris". It is a very cool company that is one ...
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  • May 5, 2005: ... dives booked for the next two days with a company called 'Deep Sea Divers Den' going out on a catamaran called SeaQuest. I ...
  • Mar 8, 2008: ... in the tropics! We started the diving course in the Deep Sea Divers Den. Two days' pool practice and theory and then off ...
  • Apr 26, 2007: ... and diving! Spent 5 days on the boat Ocean Quest with Deep Sea Divers Den and did a lot of diving! Was up at around 5.30am, ...
  • Mar 14, 2007: ... close up and personal view of the reef - very impressive -  Deep Sea Divers Den.  We are up to date on pics and ...
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  • Jun 4, 2008: ... One thing that definitely was open for our visit was Cairns Wildlife Dome, perched high on the roof of the iconic Reef Hotel ...
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  • Dec 12, 2007: ... fantastic day on the fringe reef on a great vessel called silverswift. it cost us a bit, but we were very pampered all day, ...
  • Aug 14, 2008: ... would have the same mentality. The dive company was Silverswift, which was more appealing than other companies because they ...
  • Nov 30, 2008: ... we set off for a snorkelling/diving trip on board the SilverSwift that took us out to the outer reaches of the Great Barrier ...
  • Dec 9, 2007: ... We paid up a little and went through ProDive on the SilverSwift boat (really fast!). Turned out to be a great choice. We ...