Cairns, Australia Travel Blogs

Cairns
Jun 8, 2005 (4 photos)

13 hours after we leave Perth we finally land in Cairns and check in to the YHA Esplanade. We spend time here booking all of our trips and the travel down the east coast. We've got a few days here before and after all of our side trips and we manage to ...

Encounters with cuttlefish
Jul 18, 2005 (1 photos)

... and I could have easily spent three more diving and snorkelling. But it was time to get on the fast transfer boat back to Cairns to meet Rick and head off into the rainforest. I'm sure I'll be back someday though- maybe for humpbacked whale season next ...

Road trippin'
Sep 11, 2008 (7 photos)

... around the Whitsundays.... the road trip crew were B, Tony, Katy, Nic, Me and Zo.  Katy was designated driver and we left Cairns heading for Cape Trib.  After a few hours on the road we arrived and took in the views of the rain forest....very ...

Sods law and another turkey amongst other things
Nov 23, 2006 (23 photos)

... I walk out side just as the huge ball of fire is setting behind the mountains, that being the sun. It was beautiful. However Cairns being Cairns has no where decent to take sunset pics, or should that be no where that I have found yet - I am still hopeful! ...

Addictions!! and Ten Pin Bowlin
Oct 11, 2006 (30 photos)

It's taken me all of 2 weeks to become addicted to Home & Away and Neighbors again!! I haven't watched either in about 15 years and most of the original characters have gone but there are a few faces I remember (Alf, Sally, Irene/Karl, Toadi, Sky who ...

Final leg of the road trip - Gold Coast to Cairns
Apr 15, 2008 (49 photos)

... 'Steve Irwin Way' - named in his memory.  You then see the signs - billboards with his face 'CRIKEY - WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA ZOO!' and pictures of him handling crocs.  Our excitement grew to a fever pitch.  We burst through the doors and ...

Crystal Cascades
Oct 2, 2006 (36 photos)

Today, well this afternoon really we decided to jump in Kim's camper and spend a few hours enjoying the beautiful nature of Australia. It's about a 15 minute drive in land and I think it's at the edge of the rain forest area; my navigation skills as you ...

Chuck another shrimp on the barbie, Sheila!
Dec 30, 2003

... resumed after the Christmas break! We're now in hot and humid (and very, very sweaty) Cairns, up in tropical Queensland in the North East of Australia, gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the tropical rainforest of Cape Tribulation. More of that ...

Trails and Tribulation
Jan 5, 2004 (10 photos)

... our little tour with a couple of days over in the Atherton Tablelands - an area of highlands in land from Cairns. Highlights included swimming in a waterfall pool, looking in a murky lake for Duck Billed Platypuses (Platypi?) and seeing none whatsoever, ...

Tablelands
Oct 23, 2006 (43 photos)

Today I woke up with the hangover from hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone decided today would be a good day to visit the Tablelands - I stayed in bed!! They went swimming, walked around and had a good day while I enjoyed the piece and quiet at home. ...

Throw another shrimp on the barbie mate!
Sep 28, 2006 (27 photos)

We have settled into our new home a little too easily. Everyone gets on really well and we have laughed loads. Baby Simon (he's the youngest) is leaving tomorrow to go back home to New Zealand so to night we are having a BBQ down on the Esplanade. We ...

Historic day for us!
Sep 23, 2006

So today we woke up late after last nights partying, have 15 minutes to get our stuff together and escape this jail cell which we just about manage, grab a quick coffee and jump in a taxi to take us to our new home. As it is Sunday morning most of our ...

Happy Birthday Izzy
Oct 30, 2006 (24 photos)

Today is Izzy's B'day and she took herself off on a boat trip - had we sorted something out earlier we could have gone with her. Anyway we all went out for a meal in the evening at the Cock & Bull. We ate too much (the meals are huge), didn't drink ...

You will never be a fisherman...................
Jun 20, 2005 (8 photos)

... to book the rest of our trip down the east coast, sailing, camping, didgereedoo making....the works. It means we'll be leaving cairns in the next few days with our next stop being Mission Beach, but first we decided to go off to Cape Tribulation for a ...

Cairns Hilton
Jan 8, 2004

... to get the car back on monday morning. It's a place called the Belleview, a rather time worn place on the Esplanade in Cairns. There's no aircon, so seeing as it's very humid and over 90 degrees we have to leave the windows open. There's no screens ...

Full Moon Party Ozzy Style
Oct 8, 2006 (49 photos)

Today Kim told us about a full moon party at Manchans Beach which is not far away from where we live. Ben and I had been on a bike ride there last week and all though it seemed like we rode for miles it is probably only a coule of K away. There's not ...

FREE CAR HIRE from Sydney or Brisbane
Nov 26, 2006

... are crying out for people to drive their cars back up the East Coast asap all you need is a driving licence!!!!!!!!! Email Kerry White: cairns@abeintegra.com.au or phone 0402 222 824 or try your look at any number of car dealers who do one way hire - we ...

CHAT UP LINES - ya gotta be kiding me!
Oct 19, 2006

Izzy (one of our house mates) is a school teacher, teaching Advanced English to foreign students. Tomorrow she plans to do a fun lesson on 'chat up' lines. I'm serious she has work sheets from real English text books for her students to work from. We ...

Visitors from Yorkshire!
Oct 16, 2006 (49 photos)

... in the world in the near future even if it is back home in England but until then we will cherish the memories we have from Cairns and add them to our memories of Goa. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your holdiday Bill & Co look forward to seeing you again. ...

Week Thirty Three - Cairns
Apr 14, 2004 (15 photos)

Day 212 - Tuesday 6 April Pack up and drive twenty minutes to 'Australia's Nicest Beach'. Kurrumine Beach is a windswept version of Brown's Bay. We get the Queensland brochures out and decide to drive to the 'Skyrail' which is 20 minutes north of Cairns ...

Tropical Queensland
Mar 23, 2005 (4 photos)

The first thing we noticed once we disembarked was the heat and the humidity. We're back in the tropics! Cairns (population 150,000) doesn't much resemble the Cairns that I visited 20 years ago. Back then, it was a quiet backpacker's haven. There ...

Hot Air
Oct 26, 2005 (5 photos)

Well life just get better and better. Another early start (3.30am) but this was most definitely worth it. Today we were going on a hot air balloon. Katie had been hampering on about going in one of these since the day we started and today she got her ...

Fitzroy Island on the Barrier Reef
Nov 12, 2006 (117 photos)

So after a hectic morning we jump on the 10.30am ferry to Fitzroy Island; it takes about 40 minutes. The sun is blazing and a gentle breeze makes the view pretty awesome as we ride gentle waves to this tropical island that used to be part of the main ...

Tredding on snakes n dog steals Brides thunder
Nov 4, 2006 (79 photos)

... camera is $549 - whic is just over 200 quid) so we got a major bargain when we bought ours in KL!! Great Britain kicked Australia's arse in the Tri Nation's tonight in Sydney; 23 - 12 and we saw a flag saying 'DALTON RLFC' (small village near where we ...

Kens
Oct 23, 2004 (1 photos)

... enormous Fruitbats flying overhead. God knows what the first Irish and Scottish settlers, or convicts more appropriately :-) thought of Australia. The Calypso was to be our return base for the next few nights. Cairns itself was like a big Bangor really ...

Sailing...
Nov 18, 2004 (5 photos)

Let's wrap up our trip of Australia-Part one: It was with great sadness in our hearts and tears in our eyes that we departed the Town of 1770. Okay, that was a bit melodramatic, but we did really love the place, and we were not relishing the 10 hour ...

Down, Down, Deeper & Down
Nov 20, 2008 (103 photos)

Early start today to go on our trip. Boat left at 8am and we headed off to Hastings Reef. Overall we spent 5 and a half hours actually in the sea on the Great Barrier Reef - it was fantastic. Scuba diving in the morning and snorkelling in the ...

Diving Down Under
Nov 6, 2006 (228 photos)

... yet. Then back on the boat it is a mad rush because Damien & Ben manage to blag me a free helicopter ride back to Cairns over the Great Barrier Reef!!!!! Well let me tell you it was pretty cool especially since all it cost us was a couple of beers; ...

All Because Of You
Nov 17, 2004 (3 photos)

... confusing - you never know when it might come in handy... Stop in Winton, where the almost official national anthem of Australia, Waltzing Matilda, was first played, in 1895. Key attraction here for us is the local swimming pool though, which is shear ...

Kakadoodle-do....
Aug 1, 2004 (5 photos)

... was no putting it off any longer, the Aboriginal lands of Kakadu were calling to us and all the other tourists who come to Australia as it is the best known and therefore busiest NP in Oz and is basically a chunk of Arnhemland (East of Darwin) open to joe ...