Raging Thunder Cairns

Thursday morning we get up early, ready for our coach to port Douglas. The coach picks us up right outside our door, and we head off for the great Barrier reef. Along the way the coach driver tells us a few bits of information about the local area, and we see all the sugar cane that gets grown, then transported by small train lines in the fields. < …

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

That is pretty much what I was thinking the entire day as we hurtled down the ice cold water of a giant Australian river in the middle of nowhere, with our batshit crazy guide Tim yelling helpful instructions like 'PADDLE FOR YOUR LIFE, MATES!" and my personal favorite, "HOLD THE **** ON!"

Let' …

Today is the second part of our adrenaline filled weekend, this time we are off white water rafting down the Tully River.

Another early start this morning, we were picked up at 7.50am and taken to Tully, which is a small town just outside of Cairns, where we met another bus from Cairns and got kitted up for the day ahead (including a …

So yes the morning began with a very early start at 4:30am to head to the view point to watch the sunrise over Uluru!! Again this was amazing eating our brekkie waiting for the sun to rise!!! This also gave us the opportunity to do some stupid pics with Uluru in the background!!! I tried to ride a Camel over it but failed miserably.......

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Entry containing 30 photos titled: White Water Rafting

I thought I was on a tropical island when I was in Cairns but that was before I made it to Mission Beach! This town was so quiet and small. When Rachel and I arrived we decided to take a nice long walk down the beach. It was lined with palm trees and there was absolutely no one on them. It was crazy! If that place existed in the US it would be …

... us up at 6:40am, necessitating a 6:00am get-up. The coach took us to Tully Railway Station (also strangely used as the Raging Thunder office), a journey taking around an hour and a half, at which point we grabbed a quick breakfast and hired some reef ...

... 22nd February What an amazing day!! We spent the whole day from 8.00am till 3.30 with the Xtreme Team from the Tully Raging Thunder Rafting Company. It was fantastic. We did some amazing rafting and some 10 metre rock jumps as well as being tipped from ...

... and dangling from stupid heights while Wells and George paid to be chucked out of an inflatable into swirling crocodile infested waters. Raging Thunder was the company offering to get you soaked for a small fortune and when George and Wells found out ...

G'day Mates, I just returned from taking the Raging Thunder ferry from Cairns to Fitzroy Island.  Fitzroy Island is one of the 600 "Continental" or "High" islands on the Great Barrier Reef  which means it used to be part of the mainland before ...

... had already booked the trip the day before. This trip was going to be up in Tully, in the Tully River. The company was called Raging Thunder. The weather was not the best for white water rafting, but at the same time, it made it a little more fun. ...

... has been a fantastic 12 days! On Tuesday, I started in Mission Beach and went white water rafting down the Tully River with 'Raging Thunder' and had a great time!  The rapids were up to Grade 4, but they actually seemed a little bit small some ...

... New Zealand adventure, we also had to book the great Christmas present from my family, a hot air balloon ride! With help from Raging Thunder the company the voucher was for, we decided that Friday would bring the best weather and the best chance of a ...

... white water rafting which was absolutely amazing. If you ever go up to Cairns do the full day on the Tulley River with Raging Thunder. Absolutely amazing grade four rapids and I only fell out once! Paronella Park was amazing - the Spanish Castle. And ...

... suffocate a small dog.  We made a few stops and gathered up other groups, and then we made it to Raging Thunder's headquarters. There, we purchased a wetsuit top and were routed to our appropriate buses for the 2 hour trip up to ...

... are one of the main crops here since Cairns is only 2 hours south of the equator.  The bus then stopped at the Raging Thunder café in Tulley where we had breakfast and people rented water shoes if they did not already have them.  We got back ...