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Cairns Slideshow
Cairns
Travel Blogs from Cairns, Australia
On dreams and obstacles
This is a top pick! ... beaches of Acapulco, cross the Death Valley, see the Sequoias - the largest living thing on earth, see kangaroos in the wild in Australia, and in general travel the world. I didn't even dare dreaming about being a travel writer. Well, all that's been ...
Cairns at last
This is a top pick! The drive from Townsville to Cairns much easier than expected with only and occasional cloud burst every now and then. We even had enough time to veer off the main highway to a little town called Mission Beach to see if we could spot a bird ...
Hot in the City....
This is a top pick! ... Cairns. In the evening we went for a curry, Sarah ordering a Bindh Aloo, a hot one at that. The waiter explained that in Australia they call curries by slightly different names, for example, a Bindh Aloo is actually a Vindaloo in the UK. Sarah had just ...
Day 260-266: Cairns
This is a top pick! ... threatening to rain and generally a bit miserable. So as any normal person would do on a rubbish dead I headed for the cover of Cairns Central shopping centre. Hooked up the Marco for lunch and a wander around the shops. Finally got a new pair of shorts ...
1 down and 39 or so to go.....
This is a top pick! ... is a salary coming in at the end of the month so you need to be extra careful about how much money is being spent. Australia generally being as expensive as it is did not help matters much. Also the fact that we only discovered while we were well into ...
Do you come from a land Down under?
This is a top pick! Well we have landed here in Cairns and we are safe and well. The flight made a stop at Darwin to drop some people off and refuel; they made us get off the plane with all our luggage (what a pain) for about one hour but at least we get to have a smoke, ...
live chat on msn
This is a top pick! Ok peeps Just to let you know that since this free wirless thing we are picking up at home is working pretty well we will be on line from about 8pm your time (England that is any one else will have to work their time difference out!) tonight ...
Cruising in Cairns
This is a top pick! Saturday Flight great again with fantastic views over N Territory and coming towards Cairns where the clouds started to arrive! Scenery coming into Queensland looks like home with green fields and hills. Got some good photos out of the plane window ...
Cairns
This is a top pick! ... who took a taxi with us into Cairns and wouldn't let us pay as he was on business. Ah, it's the small things in life! Cairns is really tropical. Dengue Fever was rife when we were there which came as a bit of a surprise as we thought ...
Rainforest, Reef and Rapids!!
This is a top pick! ... late afternoon and went to book our Great Barrier Reef trip for Friday. We got some shopping at Coles and had a wander round Cairns which has a big saltwater lagoon on the seafront like Townsville. It is reaaly a big tourist town for the Great Barrier ...
Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef
This is a top pick! ... areas together, it's all a bit open abd clinical looking and not a patch on Brisbanes South Bank or Airlie Beach. Later, with Australia still rocking from last weeks shock eviction of Ricky Lee, I was a bag of nerves waiting for the start of Australian ...
Little Tokyo
This is a top pick! Like a few of the towns I've stopped in along the East coast Cairns is very much a tourist town, but with a difference. That difference is in the people who make up the tourists, for once not being the English or Germans, instead it is the Japanese. It ...
Brian has landed
This is a top pick! ... to get ready to head off down the coast. Brian arrived from Melborne at Lunch time. We did a whistle stop tour of down town Cairns before having a barbie at home and chilling for a while. We headed into town for a few beers in the evening to say good ...
IMH Australia summary
This is a top pick! ... is so easily accessible for travellers, considering langue, accommodation, information and awareness, touring, transport, etc. Australia has a brilliant outdoor lifestyle which accommodates all levels from cycling and running paths in cities to ...
Still in Cairns!
This is a top pick! ... we had a picnic overlooking the river. Following that we got the 'Sky rail' which is a cable car that goes back to just outside Cairns over the rainforest canopy and you get out a couple of times on the way, once to see the Barron falls from the other ...
Day 267-273: Cairns
This is a top pick! ... and going for a swim - good to see doing laundry is a better prospect than meeting me!!! lol....Afternoon I went to the Cairns Regional Gallery which wasn't very exciting but killed some time. Then went to the Centre Of Contemporary Art, only had one ...
Settling in to life down under
This is a top pick! As we had just literally chucked out bags in our room when we arrived, we decide that Monday would be spent trying to get organised. We got up around 10 am which is late for Ben; have Ozzy style wheatabix for breakfast (there a bit smaller than ours back ...
Party in Cairns
This is a top pick! So we made the hour long journey back to Cairns, and checked into Globetrotters backpackers hostel. This was our first experience of real backpacking accommodation I think, as we had a shared bathroom, kitchen and lounge. But it was fine, there was hardly ...
Our Roadtrip Up and Down the East Coast
This is a top pick! ... far today (760km) so we pack up and leave at 7.45am. Our destination is Mackay, which is halfway between Hervey Bay and Cairns, and we arrive there at 5pm checking into the Central Tourist Park. After a well-needed cool down swim after our long days ...
The Red Centre.
This is a top pick! ... to crawl out of bed up to the viewing point to see the sunrise over Uluru and, after a few more hours in bed, flew up to Cairns, where it's been raining ever since. It's an awesome hostel and a shame we can't stay for longer to enjoy it, but tomorrow ...
Arrival to Australia
This is a top pick! ... immigration was rather amusing. It was probably from having answered honestly to the question of where we'd been prior to Australia (particularly India) that we were interrogated and searched as such. Fearing that they might confiscate or burn half our ...
Down Under!
This is a top pick! ... do, I do it well! Went Scuba diving today in the Great Barrier Reef. This is something I've wanted to do since studying Australia in junior school Geography! It was just amazing! Went on 2 dives to a depth of about 12 meters, saw some amazing fish ...
We're off to the land down under.....
This is a top pick! ... , we finally set sail across the skies at about 3.30pm. Not much else to say really. We landed at Sydney, swapped planes for Cairns and arrived in North Queensland at about 9.30pm. We were booked in at Calypso Inn which had been recommended by Lisa & ...
Convict Island has been reached!
This is a top pick! ... as a UK Woolworth's, this is a food store instead - a bit like Tesco - confusing! We grabbed a few bits then went onto the Cairns Shopping Mall. Lorna got too excited in here so we had to leave - if I'd have left her alone too long we would be flying ...
Van-Tastic
This is a top pick! ... better company so that we get to go to a decent part of the reef that isn't packed out with tourists. We then went up to Cairns Holiday Park to grab our site. Here, we hooked up to our lecky and unpacked all our stuff. It felt good being able to ...
Shark Hunting
This is a top pick! ... still felt like swimming in a fish tank So back to the main land after a bit more time snorkeling and onto drinking for Australia day, we bumped into John and Peppa in a night club entertaining as Peppa was trying to control a drunken John from having ...
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This is a top pick! I arrived in Cairnes absolutely exhausted due to the combination of alcohol abuse, lack of sleep and minor jet lag. Sarah let me know where she was staying and so i headed for there when i arrived. 2 lads who i met in Laos, Rob and Guy, also ...
A free tour of Sydney
This is a top pick! ... has by all accounts been rubbed as many times as the nose. We saw the statue celebrating 200 years since the formation of Australia of a man reading a newspaper which was pretty awesome as well. We then saw the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour bridge ...
Pirates of the Barrier Reef staring Rosey
This is a top pick! ... week about how the ladies in 1902 used to cover up in swim suits during the stinger season which has just about arrived here in Cairns. Women had to cover up in those days anyway and oh how times have changed so we decided to recreate the photo taken in ...
Ain't No Party Like an East Coast Party?
This is a top pick! It wasn't exactly a party, but it was non-stop action going up Australia's East Coast and it was hella good times. We had about 10 days to cram in everything the coast had to offer -- a trip we were told is usually done comfortably over a span of ...